Schuette, Emil Richard 1901-1974

SCHUETTE, OLOFF, OHLRICHS, PAGELER, HAUSE, MARBACH, EILERS

Posted By: Janet Schuldt, Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/29/2011 at 13:49:34

Le Mars Daily Sentinel, Le Mars, Plymouth, Iowa, USSAA Thursday, August 15,1974 Page 7

Emil Richard Schuette, 73, Craig, died unexpectedly Wednesday, (Aug. 14, 1974) at Hawarden after suffering an apparent heart attack. He was a retired farmer and Northrup King Seeds salesman for 35 years.

Mr. Schuette was born April 22,1901, at Stuttgart, Ark., the son of the late William and Anna (Eilers) Schuette. He came to the Plymouth county area in 1919 and had lived in the Le Mars and Craig area since. He retired to Craig in 1966. His marriage to Emma Oloff took place Feb. 23,1930, at Craig.

Mr. Schuette was a member of St. John's American Lutheran church, ALCM of the church, Farm Bureau and was a longtime treasurer of a rural school.

Services will be Saturday at 1:30 p. m. at St. John's Lutheran church, Craig, with Rev. 0. K. Anderson officiating. Burial will be in St. John's Lutheran cemetery at Craig under direction of the Mauer funeral home. A prayer service will be held at 7:30 p. m. Friday at the funeral home.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Emma Schuette of Craig; a son. Dale of rural Le Mars; two daughters, Mrs. Donald (Ruth) Ohlrichs, Merrill, and Ellen Schuette at home at Craig. He also has four brothers, Ernest and Elmer, both of Craig; Fred of Ireton and Walter of North Ridge, Calif.; three sisters, Mrs. Carl (Elsie) Pagelar of Craig, Mrs. Glen (Edna) Hause of Santa Susana, Calif., and Mrs. Lowell (Ann) Marbach of Le Mars and five grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother and five step-brothers.