A private family graveside service for Harold L. Schultz will be at the Rose Hill Cemetery, Carrier, OK, with Jay and Jerry Franklin officiating. Military honors will be by the U.S. Navy. Arrangements are by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home.
Harold was born on March 12, 1927 in Enid to August and Mary (Mollie) Weber Schultz and died on February 24, 2016 in Enid.
He grew up on the family farm near Carrier and attended Carrier Schools. At the age of 17, with his father’s permission, Harold enlisted into the U.S. Navy on February 20, 1945. He served in the Pacific theater during World War II, and was stationed at a supply base in the Marshall Islands where he operated heavy ship loading equipment. He was honorably discharged as a Seaman First Class on July 17, 1946. In addition to being a farmer all of his life, Harold worked for seventeen years at General Mills grain elevator, and thirteen years for the Enid Board of Trade as a supervisor.
He married his first wife, Patricia Ann Perry in 1948 and they had three daughters together. That marriage ended in divorce in 1958. On June 17, 1960, he married Pearl Richards in Enid, where they made their home and helped raise her two boys. He was baptized at Enid’s Central Christian Church.
Harold was preceded in death by his wife, Pearl on February 19, 2008; his parents; brothers, Elmer, Floyd, twins, Robert and Rollin, and Edwin; sister Florence; one grandson, and a son-in-law.
Harold is survived by his children, Glenda (Butch) Westbrook, Sheri (Dick) Fintel, all of Palmetto, Florida, Debbie Price of Bradenton, Florida, Jay (Carol) Franklin, Cumming, Georgia, Jerry (Caroline) Franklin, Charles Town, West Virginia; eleven grandchildren, eleven great grandchildren; special friends, David Crowl and Wanda Wegmiller, both of Enid.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Rosehill Cemetery.
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