Posted by Terry Powers on December 22, 2022:

San Antonio, TX Col. Gerhard Wilhelm Schulz, US Army (Retired) passed away on Friday, June 15, 2012 in San Antonio, Texas. The only child of German immigrants Ernst and Erna Schulz, Gerhard was born and raised in Dallas before entering the Navy's WWII V-12 program. Upon receiving an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, he entered as a plebe in July, 1945. Following his graduation in 1949, he was commissioned into the US Army Corps of Engineers and served his country as a career military officer retiring in 1976. While he was serving in the Korean War with the 93rd Engineer Battalion constructing a POW facility, he met his much-loved wife Jonnie M. Gill, an Army Nurse. They were married in Houston in 1952 after returning from Korea. During their marriage of 60 years, they raised two "Army brats," son Fred and daughter Lisa, and traveled the world while serving their country from Washington state to Washington, DC and from Europe to Saudi Arabia. After his retirement, Gerhard and Jonnie continued their wandering ways, living in Atlanta, Austin, Plano, and Raleigh, NC before settling at the Army Residence Community in San Antonio. Gerhard was preceded in death by his son Fred, a 1979 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. After earning his flying wings, Fred was killed in an aircraft accident off the Panama coast in 1981. Gerhard is survived by his wife, Jonnie, who continues to reside at the Army Residence Community in San Antonio, as well as by their daughter and son-in-law, Lisa and Creed Huddleston, and by three grandchildren, Kathryn, Elizabeth, and Daniel. The Huddlestons reside in Raleigh, North Carolina. A memorial service will be held on Friday, June 22 at 10:00 a.m. at the Army Residence Community Chapel with interment at Fort Sam Houston Cemetery at 2:00. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Wounded Warrior Project at woundedwarriorproject.org or to a charity of your choice. Published by San Antonio Express-News on Jun. 19, 2012.

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