Oaklawn Cemetery, North Manchester, Wabash County, Indiana

1945a Adams County, Indiana Historical Society Scrapbook
Transcribed by Janice Vasilovski 

Handwritten-Fri. March 30, 1945

EDUCATOR DIES
DR. J. R. SCHULTZ DIES OF STROKE
Local Quartet to Sing at Rites of Prominent Educator Sunday
            Funeral services for Dr. J. Raymond Schultz, 54, noted lecturer, professor and minister, who died suddenly of heart disease at his home near North Manchester at 1 a.m. Thursday, will be conducted at the First Church of the Brethren at that city, Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock with Dr. Charles F. Yoder, South Bend, officiating.  Burial will be in Oaklawn cemetery. 
            A men’s quartet from Berne, composed of C.T. Habegger, Carl E. Luginbill, Arley Habegger and Emerson Neuenschwander will sing at the services.
            Dr. Schultz, who originated from the Swiss ancestry at Pandora, Ohio, was well known here and had lectured in Berne on a number of occasions.  On these occasions he never failed to engage in a Swiss chat with his friends here.
            Dr. Schultz, who had delivered 12,000 public lectures and 1,000 commencement addresses, made two speeches in Fort Wayne Wednesday for  the Seventh War Loan campaign and preached at the First Brethren church, where he had been pastor 25 years, at night.  He complained of feeling ill but told members of his family a night’s rest would be all that was necessary and refused medical aid.
            In addition to his pastorate, Dr. Schultz had been head of the Social Science Department at Manchester College for 22 years, retiring in 1941 as active head of the department but remaining as a lecturer. He also was president of the Standard Life Insurance Company of Indiana from 1937-1944 and had been chairman of the board of directors since that time. In 1930 he became president of the Indiana Council of Religious Education for eight years.  he once was known as “the busiest man in Indiana.”
            Dr. Schultz was born in Pandora, O., August 3, 1890, the son of Albert and Sarah Schultz. He was educated there and at Otterbein College and took graduate work at many schools in the United States, England and Switzerland.
            He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Selena Schultz; four son, J. Raymond, Jr., and Donald Wayne, North Manchester, Richard, in the Army in Europe, and Harold, with the Marines in the South Pacific; one daughter, Charlotte, at home;  four brothers, Walter Sierra Leone, West Africa and Edward, John and Albert, Pandora; one sister, Mary Elizabeth, Pandora, and two grandchildren.