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- NF Gazette
Leader in Church Work Dies at 62
PEKIN-Walter E. Schildhauer, 62, of 2577 Upper Mountain Road, died Friday (May 7, 1965) in Niagara Falls Memorial after a brief illness
Born in Marshville, Wis. Mr. Schildhauer had lived in the Sanborn-Pekin area for 12 years, having moved here from Niagara Falls. He was a production engineer with the Globar Division of Carborundum Co. for 38 years and was a member of the Management Club. He was a past president of the Lutheran Laymen, Niagara Zone. He also served the St. Andrew's congregation here as president. He was a member of the church council, chairman of the board of elders, a member of the evangelism committee and acted as teen-age Bible class teacher of St. Andrew's Lutheran Church until the time of his death.
Survivors include his widow, the former Erna Meister; two daughters, Mrs. John Andrews, Niagara Falls, and Mrs. Gerald Kanouff, Sanborn; a son, William Schildhauer, Niagara Falls; a sister, Mrs. E. Kunze, Milwaukee; a brother, Edgar Voelker, Milwaukee; 17 grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Friends may call at the Pike and Jones Funeral Home, Sanborn, from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. Services will be held at St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, Pekin, at 2 p.m., Monday. Rev. La Verne, J. Fitch officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, Niagara Falls.
The family said memorials to St. Andrew's Lutheran School fund will be acceptable as tributes.
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