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Hans Edward Schmoldt, husband of Jimmie Lynn Schmoldt, died peacefully at home in Bartlesville on November 14, 2017 at the age of 96 years.
Hans was born on October 21, 1921 at the North Sea port of Cuxhaven, Germany, to Wilhelm and Gertrude (Wissert) Schmoldt. He attended primary and high school at Highland Park, New Jersey, then graduating from the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy in January 1944, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering.
Following graduation, Mr. Schmoldt was employed by the Phillips Petroleum Company at Borger, Texas, holding several positions in the production of butadiene and synthetic rubber. He transferred to Bartlesville in 1947 where he served as plant maintenance engineer in the Natural Gasoline Department.
Hans and Jimmie Lynn Wilson were married at Hillsboro, Texas, on September 4, 1948, then establishing their home in Bartlesville where they were both employed by the Phillips Petroleum Company. Eight months later in 1949, both resigned their positions to drive a truck over the newly completed graveled Alcan Military Highway for an extended honeymoon adventure in the Territory of Alaska. In Alaska both were employed by the Alaska District of the Corps of Engineers in the engineering design of the distant early warning radar screen facing the Soviet Union.
Expecting their first child, Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt returned to Bartlesville in September 1950, where Hans resumed his career in the Engineering Department at Phillips. In September 1951 Mr. Schmoldt resigned from Phillips for the second time to become an entrepreneur in the corrosion Engineering.
Mr. Schmoldt founded Schmoldt Engineering Services Company, Inc. in 1952 that he operated until his retirement in 1990. Schmoldt Engineering provided a specialty engineering service in cathodic protection engineering and construction nation-wide for the major petroleum companies and to various divisions of government to control and arrest corrosion electrically on pipelines, refineries, missile silos, military facilities, power plants, well casings, communication cables, etc. In 1990, Mr. Schmoldt sold and converted his financial interest in the corporation to a Virginia engineering conglomerate to fund the charitable HANS AND JIMMIE SCHMOLDT FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION.
Mr. Schmoldt was knighted as Knight Hospitaler of Malta, St. John of Jerusalem; knighted as Honorary Knight of St. Patrick by Missouri Governor, Kit Bond; Member Emeritus since 1971 of the New York Explorers Club; a member of Club de Exploraciones y Deportes Acuaticos de Mexico (CEDAM); recipient of the Benemerito award of the Accademia Di Mediterraneo of Rome; was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel; awarded the honorary professional degree as Chemical Engineer in 1975 by the University of Missouri at Rolla; a founding Director of the UMR Alumni Association; a founding member of the UMR Alumni Association Platinum Club; a founding member of the UMR Golden Shillelagh; a Life Member in the National Association of Corrosion Engineers; a Registered Professional Engineer in the states of Oklahoma and California; a Life Member in Sigma Pi Fraternity; recipient of the 1994 Founders Award of Sigma Pi International; member of Tulsa Pipeliners Club, the Tulsa Petroleum Club and Hillcrest Country Club.
Survivors include his life's love and companion of 69 years, Jimmie Lynn; one son, Hans Karl Schmoldt of Grand Junction, Colorado; one daughter, Gretchen Alice Schmoldt Wettlin of Bartlesville, Oklahoma; 10 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. The couple's youngest son, Kurt Edward Schmoldt, died of leukemia in 1995 at Riverside, California, at the age of 38. Mr. Schmoldt had two brothers, Otto of Edison, New Jersey, and William of Brielle, New Jersey, both deceased.
Mr. Schmoldt has been cremated and will be interred in Itasca, Texas in the family plot. Charitable contributions in Hans' memory can be made to the Westside Community Center, 501 S. Bucy Ave., Bartlesville, OK 74003.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Arnold Moore & Neekamp Funeral Home. Online condolences may be left at www.honoringmemories.com.
Published in Examiner-Enterprise from Nov. 16 to Dec. 15, 2017
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