Jerold G Schmidt
October 21, 1930 — July 26, 2008
Jerold G Schmidt
"His song is in our hearts"
Jerold "G" Schmidt, our "Man of La Mancha", started his new adventure on Saturday, July 26th, 2008. He was born to Glenn C. and Mildred Yates Schmidt on October 21, 1930. According to his recollection, he was born on the kitchen table on the family farm in West Jordan, Utah. According to his mother, he was born in a hospital in Salt Lake City.
He graduated from Granite High School in 1949 and married his high school sweetheart, Ruth Mae Manwill. Six children came from this union, Roxanne (Ivan) Udy, Hollie (Terry) Orton, Laurie (Michael) Roberts, Julie (Mayo) Hogue, Teri Jo (Brad) Kramer and Greg (Michele) Schmidt.
Jerold was a lifelong entrepreneur and amateur psychologist. Jerold has a great testimony of Jesus Christ and His restored Gospel. His hero is Lowell Bennion, because Lowell believes good works should be performed not just recited. In lieu of flowers, in his memory, please donate to the LDS Church's Perpetual Education Fund.
He loved his children, grandchildren, many great-grandchildren, his dear friends, Star Valley and Yellowstone, reading a good book, John Denver's music, sitting in the sun, praying while he jogged, providing counsel, a good meal and a great debate. He was a dreamer who saw things as they ought to be.
He is survived by both of his former wives, who still love him, Ruth Mae McEwan and Julie Olsen (his companion and best friend), and his sisters-in-law, Jean Schmidt Winegar, and Barbara Schmidt. He is preceded in death by his parents and his dearly loved brothers, Max and Kent. We also know that Jerold was embraced, as he left this world, by his faithful Missionary grandson, Levi Richard Ross, and the many others who have been waiting for him.
Viewings will be held on Tuesday, July 29 from 6 to 8 p.m. and on July 30 from 10 to 11:30 a.m at the LDS Chapel on 3408 South Celeste Way (3120 East) in East Millcreek, Funeral Service to follow at Noon on Wednesday. Interment at Mountain View Cemetery [7800 South (Bengal Blvd) 3115 East].
He wrote the following thoughts for his mother, but we think it is also a fitting tribute to this greatly loved man:
"He is the leavening that keeps us together.
He is the heart of the Schmidt family tree.
He is the standard we measure ourselves by
And he echoes the best part of me."
Dad, you fought the good fight, you reached the unreachable star, we will love you forever!
Jerold "G" Schmidt, our "Man of La Mancha", started his new adventure on Saturday, July 26th, 2008. He was born to Glenn C. and Mildred Yates Schmidt on October 21, 1930. According to his recollection, he was born on the kitchen table on the family farm in West Jordan, Utah. According to his mother, he was born in a hospital in Salt Lake City.
He graduated from Granite High School in 1949 and married his high school sweetheart, Ruth Mae Manwill. Six children came from this union, Roxanne (Ivan) Udy, Hollie (Terry) Orton, Laurie (Michael) Roberts, Julie (Mayo) Hogue, Teri Jo (Brad) Kramer and Greg (Michele) Schmidt.
Jerold was a lifelong entrepreneur and amateur psychologist. Jerold has a great testimony of Jesus Christ and His restored Gospel. His hero is Lowell Bennion, because Lowell believes good works should be performed not just recited. In lieu of flowers, in his memory, please donate to the LDS Church's Perpetual Education Fund.
He loved his children, grandchildren, many great-grandchildren, his dear friends, Star Valley and Yellowstone, reading a good book, John Denver's music, sitting in the sun, praying while he jogged, providing counsel, a good meal and a great debate. He was a dreamer who saw things as they ought to be.
He is survived by both of his former wives, who still love him, Ruth Mae McEwan and Julie Olsen (his companion and best friend), and his sisters-in-law, Jean Schmidt Winegar, and Barbara Schmidt. He is preceded in death by his parents and his dearly loved brothers, Max and Kent. We also know that Jerold was embraced, as he left this world, by his faithful Missionary grandson, Levi Richard Ross, and the many others who have been waiting for him.
Viewings will be held on Tuesday, July 29 from 6 to 8 p.m. and on July 30 from 10 to 11:30 a.m at the LDS Chapel on 3408 South Celeste Way (3120 East) in East Millcreek, Funeral Service to follow at Noon on Wednesday. Interment at Mountain View Cemetery [7800 South (Bengal Blvd) 3115 East].
He wrote the following thoughts for his mother, but we think it is also a fitting tribute to this greatly loved man:
"He is the leavening that keeps us together.
He is the heart of the Schmidt family tree.
He is the standard we measure ourselves by
And he echoes the best part of me."
Dad, you fought the good fight, you reached the unreachable star, we will love you forever!
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