Services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, January 4 at St. Johns’ Lutheran Church in Bennington for Richard Alan Schneider, 38, of Kennard who died January 1, 1990 of gun shot wounds received in Kennard. Rev. John A Pierson will officiate at the service. Burial will be at the German Cemetery north of Bennington.

Richard Alan Schneider was born January 10, 1951 at Blair. He lived his life in the Kennard area with farming as his occupation.

He graduated from Burke High School in 1969. He was baptized and confirmed at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Bennington.

He is survived by his parents, Ray and Jeanette Schneider of Kennard; brothers and sisters-in-law, David and Mary Schneider of Fremont and Daniel and Judy Schneider of Kennard; a friends, Debra Schumacher of Bennington; an aunt, Hilda Wrich of Kennard; four nephews, Daniel, Jr., Elliot, Kelsey and Derrick Schneider of Kennard; grandparents, Carl and Tina Schneider of Kennard, Helen Wrich of Blair; other aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

World Herald Article

Slashed Tires Suspected

Argument Led to Kennard Death by Mary deZutter, World-Herald Staff Writer

An argument apparently over slashed tires led to the shooting death early Monday of one Kennard, Neb., man and the arrest of another outside a Kennard tavern, Washington County Sheriff DeWayne Flora said Tuesday.

Richard A. Schneider, 38, was flown to Omaha and pronounced dead at St. Joseph Hospital after he was shot three times outside the Dew Drop Inn.

Rolland Rosenbaum, 35, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of second-degree murder and use of a firearm to commit a felony, Flora said.

A .44-caliber revolver was seized at the scene. A knife also was found there, and investigators are seeking to determine whether it belonged to the victim, Flora said.

Phyllis Rosenbaum, owner of the Dew Drop Inn, said both men were life-long residents of Kennard, a village of fewer than 200 people several miles west of Blair.

She said Rolland Rosenbaum, known as Rusty, is her husband’s cousin. He is married, the father of an infant son and installs telephone wiring for a living, she said.

Schneider, who was called Slinky, worked on a farm in rural Kennard, she said. He was not married.

Mrs. Rosenbaum said the tavern had closed early New Year’s Day and she was inside cleaning up when she heard yelling outside and opened the door.

“I heard something about somebody slashing somebody’s tires and then I heard the gunshots,” she said.

Flora said an argument had erupted earlier in the evening between Schneider and a third man at a gathering in Arlington, about 11 miles from Kennard.

The three returned separately to Kennard, he said. The two resumed their argument outside the bar, “and that’s when Rosenbaum got involved,” Flora said. Rosenbaum also had been at the party in Arlington, he said.

Rosenbaum had visited the tavern early in the evening, Mrs. Rosenbaum said. Schneider had been in a couple of times, including once shortly before he was shot, she said.

Rosenbaum remained in the custody of the sheriff’s department Tuesday, and no bail had been set, Flora said. A court hearing is expected Wednesday, he said.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~