Rudolf SCHRITTER

<p><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp; Rudolf "Rudy" Schritter, 70, 1101 Arcade, Goodland, died early Sunday morning, May 22, at the Northwest Kansas Medical Center after a short illness. <br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Services were arranged by Koons Funeral Chapel.&nbsp; Services were held Tuesday, May 24. <br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Born Feb. 7, 1907 in Neuelft; Bessarabia, Russia, he was the son of Ernest and Paulina Schritter.&nbsp; He sailed to this country with his parents and a brother, John, in 1910, docking in New York.&nbsp; From there the family went to Kulm, N.D., where they worked in nearby Fredonia for two years.&nbsp; After that they homesteaded in Idaho for 12 years, moving to the St. Francis area in 1924. <br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On June 19, 1934, Rudy and Christina Lippert were married in St. Francis.&nbsp; The couple farmed west of St. Francis from that time until1941 when they purchased a farm 30 miles northwest of Goodland.&nbsp; The farm is still in the family today.&nbsp; In 1973, they moved to Goodland to make their home. <br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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. <br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; His parents and an infant daughter preceded him in death. <br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.</span></p>

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