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Glenn A. Schwoch
1928 - 2011
Glenn A. Schwoch, 83, of Watertown, passed away on Sunday, July 17,
2011, at Willowbrook Nursing and Rehabilitation in
Lake Mills.
A memorial service
will be held on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Schmutzler-Vick
Funeral Home and Cremation Service led by Steve Jones. Burial, with military graveside rites by
American Legion Post No. 189, will be in Oak
Hill Cemetery.
Family and friends
may call on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the funeral home. The family will greet well-wishers after the
committal service at the Upper Krust.
Glenn was born on
Jan. 4, 1928, in Port Washington, son of Adolph and Adelia
(Brabender) Schwoch. He served in the United States Army during
World War II in Japan and Korea. On
April 30, 1949, he married the former Harriet Ehrendreich
at Bay Shore Lutheran Church in Whitefish Bay.
Glenn was a graduate
of the University of Wisconsin-Stout, where he earned his bachelor’s and
master’s degrees. In 1953, they moved to
Watertown, where he had been an industrial arts teacher at Watertown High
School. He loved interacting with
students and spent more than 30 years teaching in his shop classroom. He also taught at the vocational school during
his early years in Watertown. Glenn and
Harriet were the first co-presidents of PALS, the forerunner to the Friends of
the Library group. He served on the Oak
Hill Cemetery board, Watertown Streetscape committee and Watertown Transit
committee. He had been a volunteer for
the Watertown Hospital Auxiliary. He
also was a member of the Watertown school board after he retired from teaching.
One of his favorite endeavors while
serving as president of the school board was to help oversee the building of
the new high school, which was finished on time and on budget.
Survivors include
his wife, Harriet; their children, Dr. James (Mimi White) Schwoch
of Evanston, Ill., and Heidi (Jeff Rammelt) Schwoch of Watertown; two grandsons, Travis White-Schwoch and John Rammelt; a
brother, Darrell (Lucy) Schwoch of Brookfield; a
nephew, Bob Schwoch; other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in
death by his parents.
Memorials to Oak
Hill Cemetery would be appreciated.
Schmutzler-Vick
Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 500 Welsh Road Watertown
