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Edwin Weber Schultz © Enid News and Eagle 04-16-2015 Submitted by: Glenn
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Celebration of Life service for Edwin W. Schultz, of Aurora, Colo., formerly of Enid, Okla., will be 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 17, 2015, at Anderson-Burris Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Don Johnson officiating. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 12:30-2 p.m. at a reception at Central Christian Church, before the service.
Edwin Schultz passed away Thursday, April 9, 2015, in Aurora, Colo., at age 93.
Edwin lived in Enid most of his life, moving to Colorado over a year ago to live with his granddaughter, where he received loving care from Emily, husband Joe Medina and family.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Nelle (Durham); parents, August J. and Mary Etta (Mollie); brothers, Floyd and Elmer; twins, Robert and Rollin; and sister, Florence.
He is survived by his brother, Harold of Enid; sons, Rodney and Greg; grandchildren, Emily, Ted, Megan, and Kurt; and great-grandchildren, Niko, Jake, Emmett, Rodney and Sam.
Edwin’s parents were married in Enid in 1907, and farmed near Carrier. In 1913, they moved to Iowa, where Edwin was born at Fort Madison on Dec. 30, 1921.
The Schultz family moved back to Oklahoma in 1926. It was on the trip that the twins, Robert and Rollin fell ill, dying at the new farm near Carrier at 18-months-old.
Edwin graduated from Carrier High School and then John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Ark., where he met Mary Durham.
He enlisted in the Army and they were married while he was in flight training.
Edwin qualified as a pilot in B-17s, expecting to join the air war in Europe, but was switched to B-29s and went to Tinian in the Pacific instead. He flew over 20 combat missions to Japan and Korea and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for a mission over Tokyo on May 24, 1945.
After returning to Enid in 1946, he went to work for Union Equity. He worked on the construction of their newest grain elevator “B” and became the superintendent. His career with Union Equity spanned over 40 years.
After retirement, he and Mary resided in Enid, but traveled to Europe and trailered to Colorado in the summer and the Corpus Christy area in the winter. Fishing with the grandkids was a high priority.
In his later years, he was an avid reader, liked to watch sports, and served as the neighborhood grandpa, keeping an air tank handy to fill bike tires. He was a wonderful man who will be missed by all those whose lives he touched.
Memorials may be made to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Guestbook is available at www.andersonburris.com.
(Submitted by family)
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