SCHULZ, Mildred Lucille (nee Swinton) 1916-2002

SCHULZ, SWINTON, KNUTSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 1/24/2009 at 21:06:23

Mildred Schultz

Mrs. Mildred Schultz, 85, a resident of 507 North Jackson Street, Charles City, died Friday, April 12, 2002, at her home.

Funeral services for Mildred Schultz will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Trinity United Methodist Church. The Rev. Solomon Odoom, pastor of West St. Charles United Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Sunnyside Memory Gardens rural Charles City.

Friends may call at the Hauser Funeral Home from 4 to 9 p.m. Monday, from 9-11 a.m. on Tuesday and at the church an hour prior to the services.

Mildred Lucille Swinton Schultz was born April 24, 1916 in Cannon Falls, Minn., the daughter of Fred and Hattie (Knutson) Swinton. She graduated from the Nashua High School. On November 26, 1938, she was united in marriage to Reynold Schultz at Sioux Falls, S.D. In 1956 she received her degree in elementary education from Iowa State Teachers College. Mildred taught school for seven years in Chickasaw County and for twenty-five years at Castle Hill Elementary in Waterloo. She was a member of the West St. Charles United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, Book Worms, Floyd County Rock and Gem Club, and the Floyd County Historical Society. Mildred also volunteered, assisting Bev Rasmussen with her class at Washington School. Spending time with her family was very important. Mildred greatly enjoyed working in her yard and reading autobiographies. She was a teacher at heart, inviting school children into her home to view her natural science collections which she had saved from her teaching days.

Living family members include her daughter, Karen Thomas of Charles City; a son, Richard Schultz and wife Autumn of Charles City; three grandchildren, Dara Jaeger and husband Troy, Travis Thomas, and Daniel Schultz; two great grandchildren, Tate and Rhett Jaeger; seven brothers and their wives, Harold and Bernice Swinton of Waterloo, Willard and Lois Swinton of Long Beach, Calif., Donald and Dorothy Swinton and Vernon and Donna Swinton both of Waverly, Herbert and Delores Swinton of Cedar Falls, Morris and Alice Swinton of Dixon, Ill., and Roger and Marlys Swinton of Shell Rock; five sisters, Doris White and husband Clare of Emmetsburg, Helen Asher and husband Harley of Greene, Alfreeda Albaugh and husband Ronald of Springfield, Mo., and Wilma Braend and Lois Brodt both of Waverly; and a sister-in-law, Mary Swinton of Waverly.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband in 1992, infant son, Bruce, a brother, Dale Swinton, and a son-in-law, Jack Thomas.