Schultz, Esther L. 1906-1988

SCHULTZ, RANK, BEHRENS, WICHMANN, KEIPER, MAAS, NABOR, BOHSTEDT

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The Brooklyn (IA) Chronicle; Feb. 3, 1988

ESTHER SCHULTZ

Funeral services for Esther L. Schultz, 81, Williamsburg, were held Jan. 23 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Williamsburg, the Rev. Phill Andreasen officiating.

Mrs. Schultz had been in failing health for the last several months and died Jan. 20, 1988, at the Lantern Park Care Center, Coralville, where she had been a resident since Nov. 15, 1987.

Patricia (Mrs. Larry) Dellamuth, Williamsburg, was organist and accompanied Kathy Bohstedt, Marengo, a niece.

Burial was in St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, Lincoln Township, Iowa County, rural Victor.

Pallbearers were Dr. Mark Schultz, Storm Lake; Paul Schultz, Iowa City; Jon Behrens, Thousand Oaks, Calif., and Robert Schultz, Des Moines, all grandsons; and Michael Cooper, Grundy Center; Wayne Dale, Thousand Oaks; Jeffrey Berry, Foster City, Calif., all grandsons-in-law.

Honorary casket bearers were Randy Schmidt, Sipan, and Michael Fitzpatrick, Centerville.

The Uhlmann Funeral Home, Williamsburg, was in charge of funeral arrangements.

Esther L. Schultz was born Aug. 3, 1906, at Deep River, the daughter of William and Mary Rank Behrens. She was baptized at St. John's Lutheran Church, rural Victor, and attended a rural school and St. John's Lutheran School, through the eighth grade.

Her marriage to M. Louis Schultz took place Feb. 17, 1926, at St. John's Lutheran Church, Lincoln Township.

They lived on a farm in Dayton Township, Iowa County, and later on farms in the Williamsburg area and also in Benton County. In 1939 they moved back to a farm in Dayton Township near Deep River where they lived until retiring and moving to Williamsburg in October 1976.

She was a lifetime member of the Lutheran Church, first as a member of St. John's Lutheran, Lincoln Township, and since October 1976, at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Williamsburg, where she was a member of the Women's Guild.

Surviving are two sons, Iowa Supreme Court Justice Louis W., Iowa City, and Arnold C., Grundy Center; and a daughter, Rosemary Kathryn (Mrs. Gary) Behrens, Redwood City, Calif.; nine grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; one brother, Henry Behrens, Williamsburg; and six sisters, Mabel (Mrs. Henry) Wichmann, Cedar Rapids; Marie Behrens, Iowa City; Ella (Mrs. Fred) Keiper, Atkins; Minnie (Mrs. Erwin) Maas, Williamsburg; Florence (Mrs. Henry) Nabor, Muscatine, and Margaret (Mrs. Ted) Bohstedt, Victor.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Louis, who died April 2, 1977; three brothers, George, Walter and Carl; and nephew Henry (Butch) Behrens, August 1953, who made his home with the family.