Wilko SCHRODER

SCHRODER, DRENTH, HAGEDORN, BRUMMETT, NORSE, CLARK, RANSOM, MILLS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/10/2009 at 09:58:20

Wilko Schroder

Funeral services were held Tuesday for a longtime Sumner and Fredericksburg area resident, Wilko Schroder, 79, who died Saturday evening, Jan. 3, shortly after being admitted to Community Memorial Hospital in Sumner. There were 10:30 a.m. services at Peace United Church of Christ in Fredericksburg with Rev. David Fye officiating. Burial was in Rose Hill Cemetery at Fredericksburg, and Becker-Milnes Funeral Service of Sumner was in charge of the arrangements.

Wilko, son of Evert and Grace (Drenth)Schroder, was born Aug. 11, 1907, in Berta, Netherlands. The family came to the United States in May of 1913 and settled in Butler County, Iowa, where he attended rural schools. He was baptized on Sept. 3, 1916, at the United Church of Christ in Belmond. On April 8, 1939, he married Emma Hagedorn, and the couple farmed in the Fredericksburg and Sumner areas until purchasing a home and moving to Sumner on March 1, 1958. He had been a member of Peace United Church of Christ in Fredericksburg since 1945.

Survivors include his wife, Emma of Sumner, a daughter, Mrs. Claude (Melba) Brummett of Des Moines; two grandchildren, Leroy Korte and Mrs. Randy (Lynn) Clark, both of Monroe, Iowa; two step-granddaughters, Mrs. Ivyl (Kathy) Ransom of Truro and Connie Brummett of Des Moines; five great-grandchildren; three step-great-grandchildren; one brother, Evert Schroder of Grenada, Calif.; and one sister, Mrs. Noel (Jennie) Mills of Smyrna, Tenn. He was preceded in death by his parents and a great-grandson, Travis Clark.

Sumner Gazette, Sumner, Iowa
8 January 1987