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Rudolf "Rudy" Schritter, 70, 1101 Arcade, Goodland, died early Sunday morning, May 22, at the Northwest Kansas Medical Center after a short illness.
Services were arranged by Koons Funeral Chapel. Services were held Tuesday, May 24.
Born Feb. 7, 1907 in Neuelft; Bessarabia, Russia, he was the son of Ernest and Paulina Schritter. He sailed to this country with his parents and a brother, John, in 1910, docking in New York. From there the family went to Kulm, N.D., where they worked in nearby Fredonia for two years. After that they homesteaded in Idaho for 12 years, moving to the St. Francis area in 1924.
On June 19, 1934, Rudy and Christina Lippert were married in St. Francis. The couple farmed west of St. Francis from that time until1941 when they purchased a farm 30 miles northwest of Goodland. The farm is still in the family today. In 1973, they moved to Goodland to make their home.
Besides his widow of the home, other survivors include 2 sons; Herbert, Kanorado, and Albert, Stafford, Kan.; 2 daughters; Gertrude Swayne, Kanorado and Vivian McClung, Goodland; 12 grandchildren; one great grandchild; 2 brothers, John, Burlington, and Robert, Ft. Lupton, and 7 sisters, Christina Carr, Manitou Springs, Martha Schulz, Vancouver, Wash., Emma Willt, Colorado Springs, Regina Krien, Fort Morgan, Elizabeth Isernhagen, Boulder, Helen Schauer, Bakersfield, Calif., and Paula Wall, St. Francis.
His parents and an infant daughter preceded him in death.
He was confirmed into the Pleasant Valley Lutheran Church in American Falls, Idaho, in 1922,became a member of the Salem Lutheran Church, St. Francis, in 1934, and joined Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Goodland, in 1973.