1889 - 1939
349th Infantry, 88th division
Service Number 3226387
Departure August 9, 1918 at New York, New York on the U.S.S. Olympic (SP-260)
Unit 349th Infantry, Machine Gun Company
Rank Private
Enlistment May 27, 1918
Discharge June 11, 1919
Born MAY 20, 1889 Manilla, Iowa
Entered Into Rest OCTOBER 4, 1939 Wyatt Hospital Manning
Age 50 years, 4 months, 14 days
Services Held At OHDE FUNERAL HOME Manning, Iowa
2 P.M. October 7, 1939
Clergyman REV. ALEXANDER WIMBERLY
Pastor Presbyterian Church Manning
Interment Manilla Cemetery October 7, 1939
AMERICAN LEGION POST No. 132, Manilla In Charge
Pall Bearers CHRISS OLSEN, HANS CLAUSEN, JOHN SCHILLING, LYNN McCRACKEN, CLAUDIUS HANSEN, EDWARD CHRISTENSEN
Death claimed George Schade of Aspinwall only three days after his father, Henry Schade, of Aspinwall, had passed away. George Schade died in the Wyatt Hospital at Manning at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 4, 1939, after a lengthy illness of cancer. He had been in failing health since last spring and had been under treatment at the Jennie Edmondson Hospital, Council Bluffs, for two weeks before being brought to the Wyatt Hospital September 3.
Mr. Schade, a World War I Veteran, was fifty years old. Born at Manilla May 20, 1889, he had spent virtually all of his life in the Manilla and Aspinwall communities. At the time of his death, he was a mechanic in Ehrichs' Garage at Aspinwall.
He was twice married, his first wife, who was Anna Ehrichs of Aspinwall, having died in September 1920. To them was born one daughter, Ellen, May 5, 1926.
He was married to Alma Bahls in Des Moines.
Surviving with his wife and daughter, Ellen, above named, are three brothers, Harry Schade, Manning; Henry Schade, Des Moines; and Herbert Schade, Rock Island, Illinois, and one sister, Mrs. Kuhl, of Manning.
His father, Henry Schade, passed away at Iowa City Monday morning, October 2, after a brief illness. His mother, Sophia (Grage) Schade, died about twenty-two years ago. Funeral services for his father were held at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning this afternoon, with burial in the Manilla Cemetery.
Funeral arrangements for Mr. Schade have not been completed,
but the rites will probably be held at Manilla Saturday. There will be a military funeral.
Carroll Daily Herald, October 5, 1939
After the war he went to work at the Ehrichs Garage in Aspinwall. He was Mayor of the town
for a number of years, holding that office at the time of his death in 1939.
George was married to Anna Ehrichs, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs: John Ehrichs, in
1919. They lived in the old John Ehrichs home in Aspinwall, now occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
George Mackey. George and Anna had one child, Ellen, born in 1920. Anna died in childbirth.
As an infant Ellen went to live with her grandparents. When they passed away she lived
with her aunt and uncle, Hugo and Margaret Ehrichs Brus.
In 1926 George married Alma Bahls and Ellen then came to Aspinwall to live with her dad
and step-mother. She was six years old at that time and "spent 14 wonderful years in the little town."
Ellen left Aspinwall in 1940 to attend cosmetology school in Davenport. After graduation
she went to work in Logan, where she met Ralph Trout. They were married in 1945. They
have three children and are both now retired.
Michael is in Cedar Rapids, where he works for Century Engineering; he has two children
by a former marriage and has remarried. Pam and her husband have two adopted
children and live in Beatrice, Nebraska, where Dave works for Mid-America Pipe Line Corp.
Steve and his wife have three daughters and live in Centerville, where Steve is employed
at Union Carbide.