Schultz, Karl 1923-1999

SCHULTZ, HACKER, MAUER

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 11/23/2008 at 20:19:10

NAME OF DECEASED & AGE: Karl Schultz, 75, of Sioux City, formerly of LeMars
DATE OF DEATH: Sunday, March 28, 1999
PLACE OF DEATH: …at his residence.
CAUSE OF DEATH:
DATE OF BIRTH: Aug. 27, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH: …near LeMars, IA
PARENTS: John “Jack” and Johanna (Hacker) Schultz
SPOUSE & DATE & PLACE of 1st MARRIAGE: Ruth Mauer, June 26, 1949, in Preston township.
SPOUSE & DATE & PLACE of 2nd MARRIAGE:
OCCUPATION: He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II as a radio interceptor operator. Following his discharge he returned to LeMars. After their marriage, the couple moved to Idaho Falls, Idaho, in the early 1950s, where he was employed in the travel division of Atomic Energy Commission. In the late 1950s, they moved to Wichita, Kan., where he was employed with security for Martin-Marrieta Corp., and then with the company in Denver, Colo. In 1965, they returned to LeMars. He was employed with Parkinson Music, where he learned instrument repair. In 1967, he established the first musical instrument repair program at Western Iowa Tech Community College. He was employed with Felton Seed Co. in Sioux City from 1979 until retiring in 1993.
SURVIVORS: …include his wife; a son and his wife, John and Sheri of Lawton, Iowa; two grandchildren, Kaitlyn and Adam Schultz; and a brother and his wife, Rich and Jane of LeMars.
PRECEDED in DEATH by: …his parents.

PLACE OF BURIAL: Memorial Cemetery, LeMars, Iowa
NEWSPAPER SOURCE & DATE: The Sioux City Journal

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