Schultz, Wilmer Franklin (1930-2007)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2007 Aug 6 p. 9

Birth date: 1930 Dec 21

text of obituary:

WILMER F. SCHULTZ

Wilmer “Willy” Franklin Schultz, 76, of Albany, Ore., died July 15, 2007. He was born Dec. 21, 1930, to Albert C. and Karoline (Ratzlaff) Schultz in Protection, Kan.

He attended grade school in Protection and graduated from eighth grade at Foster. He attended three years of high school at Oklahoma Bible Academy in Meno and graduated from Protection High School in 1949. He accepted Jesus Christ as his savior as a teenager.

He served in the military from 1951 to 1953. Most of his time was spent in the Korean War.

After his time in the military, he moved to Albany in 1955. After working for a short time at Montgomery Ward, he worked at Western Kraft for 29 years, retiring in 1985.

He was an avid golfer and nearly every evening after work, rain or shine, he would be swinging the clubs. After retiring, his days were spent on the golf course. He enjoyed all sports and sometimes watched two sporting events simultaneously. He loved to read, reading everything from prophecy to encyclopedias. He didn’t like to travel very much but would wear out an atlas just looking at it. In his later years he became interested in researching family history.

Survivors include two sisters, Marie Selzer of Sharon Springs, Kan., and Elsie Knabe and her husband, Bob, of Rickreall; two brothers, Eldon Schultz of Hutchinson, Kan., and John Schultz and his wife, Dixie, of Albany; a sister-in-law, Faye Nofziger of Woodburn; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Vernon.

Funeral services were held at AAsum-Dufour Funeral Home. Burial was in Gilliland Cemetery.