Schrag, Milton W. (1906-2002)

Newton Kansan obituary: 2002 June 18 p. 2

Birth date: 1906 Oct 28

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2002 Jul 15 p. 8

text of obituary:

MILTON SCHRAG

Milton Schrag, 95, died June 15, 2002, in Lynchburg, Va. He was born Oct. 28, 1906, in rural Moundridge, Kan., to Elias and Lydia Wedel Schrag.

He grew up on the family farm between Moundridge and Halstead. He graduated from Halstead High School in 1927 and attended Pittsburg State Teachers College in Pittsburg, where he met his future wife, Lilly Studer. They were married on May 26, 1929, at First Mennonite Church of Christian in Moundridge.

He served in the Augusta school system for a period of 40 years, teaching manual arts, woodworking, metalworking, auto mechanics and driver's education. He was a master craftsman, building many pieces of furniture from walnut lumber he cut from trees on the Studer farm at Cedar Vale. That walnut was also used for interior trim in his house that he built in Augusta. He collected and repaired clocks.

Survivors include his son, Vernon and and his wife, Sue, of Penhook, Va.; a brother, Robert, and a sister, Elda Littlejohn, both of Wichita; two grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Memorial services were held in Augusta, Kan. Burial was in Cedar Vale, Kan.