Schroeder, Sandor (1917-1956)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1956 May 17 p. 3

Birth date: 1917 Jan 6

text of obituary:

FATHER OF FOUR IS FATALLY INJURED IN FALL FROM BARN ROOF

Lyndon, Wash. — The Glendale Mennonite congregation and community were deeply seddened [sic] by the death of Sandor Schroeder, 38, who passed away Sunday morning, May 6, almost 48 hours after falling about 20 feet in a barn.

He was helping bolt aluminum sheets onto the barn roof when he accidently fell head first to the concrete floor below. He was rushed to a Bellingham hospital but never regained consciousness.

Surviving are his wife, Helen, and four small sons.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1956 May 24 p. 8

text of obituary:

SANDOR SCHROEDER

Sandor Schroeder of Route 1, Custer, Wash., was born at Norheim, Mont. on Jan. 6, 1917, a son of Henry R. and Eva Schroeder. He received his education in the Goessel, Kan. elementary and high schools, and during World War 2 took one year of college.

He accepted Jesus and was baptized upon confession of his faith on May 16, 1937, by Rev. P.P. Buller, becoming a member of the Goessel Mennonite Church at Goessel, Kan.

In 1943 he was called into the Army, in which he served four years. On July 3, 1945, he was married to Helen Jean Kennedy of Tacoma,Wash. In 1947, after his discharge from the Army, they settled on a farm near Ferndale, Wash.

In 1954 they bought the Sunrise Store, which was destroyed by fire Dec. 4, 1954, and rebuilt in the spring of 1955. In addition to operating the store, he also did carpenter work. He was re-roofing a barn when the plank on which he was standing broke, and he fell 16 feet onto the cement floor, landing on his hands and face. He suffered numerous broken bones, and his face was badly injured.

He was taken by ambulance to St. Luke's Hospital in Bellingham, where he suffered for two days and two nights, and all possible aid was given by two doctors and three special nurses. The Lord called him Home Sunday morning May 6, 1956, at the age of 39 years and four months.

He leaves his wife, Helen Jean; four sons, Kenneth 9, Robert 8, Donny, 6 and Stanley 2; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Schroeder, and parents-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George Kennedy; three brothers and three sisters, Harry of Ferndale, Wash., Marg. and Lydia of Bellingham, Helen of Peabody,Kan.,Jacob of Silver Springs, Md., Edward of Custer, Wash.; and a host of relatives and friends.

As a family we are sorry he had to leave in such a tragic way, but we have reason to believe that the Lord accepted him and that we will meet him again when the Lord calls his saints. He did not have an easy life. He suffered many reverses and losses, but always took them as from the Lord. He labored with and for many, who in these days have shown us much sympathy. He was regular in church attendance and took his children to Sunday school. — The Schroeder Family.