Linscheid, Raymond Vernon (1923-2005)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2005 Sep 19 p. 11

Birth date: 1923 Sep 8

text of obituary:

RAY LINSCHEID

Raymond Vernon Linscheid, 81, of Glendale, Ariz., died Aug. 22, 2005, at Glencroft Care center. He was born Sept. 8, 1923, to Herbert and Sadie (Rupp) Linscheid in Mountain Lake, Minn.

As a youth he attended school in Butterfield, Minn., and graduated from high school in 1941 as salutatorian. In 1938 he was baptized and became a member of Butterfield Mennonite Church.

He married Betty Hartzler on May 21, 1960, at First Mennonite Church in Mountain Lake.

After high school he worked as manager and operator of a local filling station for a couple of years. He then spent four years in Idaho working for his cousin at a farm implement business. After moving back to Minnesota, he worked a number of years at an uncle's hardware store. He became interested in locksmithing and actively enjoyed this until and beyond his retirement. He was a Butterfield substitute rural mail carrier for 15 years and served as Butterfield village clerk for four years. He built a building in Butterfield and established his own short-line implement business for eight years. Then he went to work for four years at an implement shop in Jackson.

He and his wife moved to Hesston, Kan., in 1967, and he was employed by Hesston Corp. as office and grounds maintenance for 18 years until his retirement. In November 1988 they moved to Glencroft Retirement Community in Glendale.

He enjoyed music and played first-chair solo cornet with a municipal band in Minnesota for 15 years. He sang with the Mountain Lake Choral Society a number of years, the Kansas Mennonite Men's Chorus for 18 years, the West Coast Mennonite Men's Chorus in California for eight years and the Arizona Mennonite Men's Chorus. He also participated each Christmas in Minnesota in a 200-member Messiah chorus.

Survivors include his wife of 45 years, Betty; and two brothers, Willis and Delmar of Butterfield.

Memorial services will be held at Trinity Mennonite Church of Glendale.

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