Robert Schneider

Robert Schneider COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa - Robert Schneider, 83, of Columbus Junction, died Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2001, at the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City, from a sudden illness following knee replacement surgery. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Stacy-Lewis Funeral Home in Columbus Junction. Burial will be at the Columbus City Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Thursday at the Stacy-Lewis Funeral Home. Mr. Schneider was born Aug. 4, 1917, in Lacona, the son of Joseph and Maggie Miller Schneider. He married Verlee Bell Jones June 28, 1947, in Rock Island, Ill. He was a World War II Army veteran and farmed in the Columbus Junction area until the 1980s when he semi-retired to drive for local coops and later Plank Implement, retiring in 1997. His friends best knew him as ''Coon Dog'' because of his love for hunting raccoons in his earlier years. He was a member of the Columbus Junction American Legion. Survivors include his wife, Verlee; three children, Stephen Robert Schneider and his wife, Vicki, of Davenport, Gayle Verlee Hoag and her husband, Edward, of Columbus Junction, and Mark James Schneider and his wife, Garnette, of West ...[more]

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ster; three grandchildren, Michael Schneider and his wife, Tammy, of Davenport, Steven M. Schneider of Davenport, and Benjamin Schneider of West Chester; two great-grandchildren, Blake and Sydney Schneider of Davenport; two brothers; Gerald of Lacona, and Paul of Marshalltown; and one sister, Geraldine Schneider Ross of Olwein, He was preceded in death by his parents; his stepmother, Amelia Bauer Schneider; four brothers, Berthold, Floyd, William, and Herbert; and one sister, Genevieve Schneider.