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Feb 12, 1971
MRS MARY SHOLTZ
FUNERAL HELD FRIDAY
The funeral service for Mrs Mary Sholtz was held Friday, February 26, at 2:00 p.m. at Simonson's Funeral Home in Red Cloud followed by burial in Guide Rock cemetery. Rev Chas. Burt officiated at the service.
Mrs Kenneth Thompson and Mrs Randy Hunter sang for the service, with Mrs Sylvia Beams at the organ.
Pallbearers were grandsons, Bill Sholtz, Dean Sholtz, Ron Payne, Kendal Sholtz, Tindal Sholtz and Eldon Yung.
Mrs Mary W Sholtz died Tuesday, February 23, 1971 at the Mary Lanning Hospital in Hastings, Nebr., at the age of 93 years 1 month and 10 days.
Mary W Schultz daughter of Lizzie and John Schultz, was born January 13, 1877, in a log house northeast of Burr Oak, Kansas. She came with her parents when she was five years old to the Guide Rock community, where her parents homesteaded the farm now owned by Floyd Shipman and family.
On December 2, 1901, Mary Schultz and William Sholtz were married at Red Cloud, Nebr. their first home was over the state line in Kansas. During the next several years they lived in both Kansas and Nebraska. In 1934 they came to Guide Rock to make their permanent home.
Mr Sholtz died August 6, 1943.
Mr and Mrs Sholtz had four sons and one daughter, Clarence and George of Guide Rock, Wilbur of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Mrs Dora Payne of Guide Rock, and Elmer, who died at the age of two years.
Mrs Sholtz also helped raise three grandchildren.
She had ten grand-children, 27 great grandchildren and one great-great grandson.
Mrs Sholtz is also survived by three sisters and one brother, Mrs Matie Crowder of Guide Rock, Mrs Emma Frey of Denver, Colorado, Mrs Lucy Britton of Ravenna and Lloyd Schultz of Guide Rock, and by numerous nephews and nieces.
She was preceeded in death by her parents, her husband, also three brothers and two sisters, Andrew Schultz, John Schultz, Clyde Schultz, Julia Haskins and Sophia Hoskins, a grandson, Jr Sholtz and a great grand-daughter, Lynette Sholtz.
Her parents came from Germany to this part of the west in an early day. Thus Mrs. Sholtz knew the hardships of pioneer life. As the eldest child of a family of ten, she was dutiful, helpful daughter, a wonderful wife and mother, a truly good woman. Her memory will always be cherished by her loved ones.