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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Jacob Carl Schwindt
Jacob Carl Schwindt,
102, died Tuesday, Nov. 25,
2003, at Holiday Resort
Care Center, Emporia.
Jacob Carl Schwindt, the
son of Otto and Sophia
Maurer Schwindt, was
born Sept. 21, 1901, at
Olpe. He had lived in Lyon
County all of his life. He
quit school in the eighth
grade to work on the family
farm, and continued farming until his retirement 21
years ago.
He married Rosa May
Rice on Nov. 10, 1923, at
her parents' home in rural
Olpe. She died March 18,
1975. He married Eleanor
Heaney Rice on June 7,
1981, at Saffordville. She
survives.
Mr. Schwindt was a
member of the Ebenezer
United Methodist Church,
Farm Bureau and Mid-America Dairymen's
Association. He had served
in numerous church offices
and had been a member of
the Dixon School Board.
Other survivors include
four daughters, Rosa Mae
Carlson of Chanute, Grace
Eileen VanSickle of
Emporia, Alice Louise
Wilken of Loveland, Colo.
and Clara Ann Coltharp of .
Canon City,.Colo; one step-son, Vernon J. Rice of Wichita; one stepdaughter,
Marjorie Maupin of Moore, Okla.; two sisters, Ruth
Stueve of Olpe and Mabel Matile of San Antonio,
Texas; 11 grandchildren; seven stepgrandchildren;
16 great-grandchildren; six stepgreat-grandchildren;
and one great-great-grand-child.
He was preceded in
death by two brothers,
Edward and Clyde
Schwindt; and four sisters,
Louise Mohr, Violet
Rinehart, Evelyn Barb and
Lila Whitaker.
The funeral service was
Nov. 29, in Ebenezer
United Methodist Church
west of Olpe. Burial was in
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery
in Olpe. Pastor Marilyn Christmore of LaCrosse and Pastor Don Barb of Olpe conducted the swervices.
Memorial donations to the Ebenezer United Methodist Church or the Saffordvcille United Methodist Church may be sent to Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home, 605 State St., Emporia,KS 6680l
Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Dec 04,2003
by Lorna Marvin
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