Burial will be in New
Union Cemetery, Lincoln. Military rites will be
conducted.
Mr. Schmidt farmed in Eminence Township his
entire life.
He served in the U.S. Army.
Virgil Dietrick Schmidt was born Nov. 24, 1921,
in Lincoln. His parents were Dietrick A. and Nettie
Diersing Schmidt. He married Florence Eleanor Turner
on May 23, 1941, in St. Charles, Mo.
He is survived by his wife; one son, Harold Dean
(and Phyllis) Schmidt of Lincoln; three
grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; one
great-great-grandson; and two sisters, Bernice (and
Raymond) Turner of Lincoln and Eleanor May (and
Frank) House of Sayner, Wis.
He was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in
Lincoln and the American Legion post in Atlanta.
He graduated from Beason High School in 1939.
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