4/14/15 – 8/16/97

Raymond E. Schmidt, 82 of Blair, died Aug. 16, 1997 at Memorial Community Hospital in Blair.

Services will be at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at First Lutheran Church. Burial will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Sterling Cemetery in Sterling, Neb.

Schmidt was born April 14, 1915 at Sterling to George and Trentje (Meints) Schmidt. He was baptized and confirmed at St. John’s Lutheran Church and served on the church council there. On Sept. 17, 1944, he married Lucile Seele. They farmed on the same farm where he was born and raised until 1978 when they moved into Sterling. They moved to Johansen Manor in Blair in November of 1990.

He was a member of the District No. 22 School Board and Sterling Public School No. 33.

He is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Rick and Dorothy Schmidt of Blair; two daughters and sons-in-law, Barbara and Keith Janssen of Ottawa, Kan. and Donna and Dennis Awtry of North Platte, Neb., and seven grandsons.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Lucile, on Oct. 26, 1995; his parents; four brothers, Albert, Brunke, William and Henry and two sisters, Christina and Fanny.

Memorials may be given to the Diabetes Association.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

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