Our Neighbors in the Services
Storm Lake, Iowa – Richard Schmitz, owner of the Schmitz Lumber Company here, has received a commission as lieutenant junior grade, in the naval reserve and has left for Harvard, where he will attend graduate business school. His uncle, Henry Schmitz will manage the company in his absence.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, April 12, 1943
Richard David “Dick” Schmitz was born Nov. 24, 1908 to J. A. and Ida Willena Burns Schmitz. He died Aug. 16, 1986 and is buried in Saint Marys Catholic Cemetery, Storm Lake, IA.
Lt. Schmitz served with the U.S. Navy in World War II as a Supply Officer at Terminal Island, CA.
Source: ancestry.com
