Schulz, Hugo C. 1891-1991

SCHULZ, GRIEBELING, HOCK, WESEMAN, NEWCOMB

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Date: 12/6/2007 at 09:52:39

Hugo C. Schulz

Hugo C. Schulz, 99, a longtime Newton attorney, a member of the Selective Service System for many years and former Jasper County attorney, died Saturday morning, Feb. 23, at the Skiff Medical Center.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.

The Rev. David Raymond, pastor of the Congregational United Church of Christ, will conduct services. Burial will be in Newton Union Cemetery.

Military services will be conducted by Newton Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1655.

Friends may call at the funeral home today.

Memorials to the Willowbrook Adult Day Care Center will be accepted.

Survivors are a sister, Julia Hock of Detroit, Mich.; a cousin, Clarence Griebeling of Newton; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Carolyn, Sept. 30, 1971, his step-father, and a brother.

Mr. Schulz, who retired in 1981 at the age of 90, began law practice in Newton in 1916.

A resident of Newton since 1902, Mr. Schulz was honored in 1965 for 20 years of service to the Selective Service System.

Mr. Schulz had served as president of the Jasper County Bar Association, had been commander of the Newton American Legion Post 111, Chef de Gare of the Newton 40 and 8, exalted ruler of the Newton BPOE Elks 1270, member of the Newton Moose Lodge 923, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1655 and Last Man's Club.

He had served in World War I as a captain with the American Expeditionary Force, 804th Infantry in France from 1917 to 1919, joined the Iowa National Guard in 1942, was commanding officer of Co. F., 1st Regiment of the Guard from 1942 to 1945, was appointed lieutenant colonel of Headquarters, 2nd Battalion, 1sst Regiment in 1945.

The son of Otto and Sophie Weseman Schulz, he was born June 16, 1891 in Gilman, was graduated from Newton Community High School in 1910 and from the University of Iowa College of Law in Iowa City in 1916.

He was married to Carolyn J. Newcomb Nov. 1, 1923 in Iowa City.

He also had resided in Baxter and had resided in Detroit, Mich., early in his life, coming to Newton in 1902. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, February 1991