Willis Schroeder

If so desired, memorials are preferred to the Mountain Lake Public Library. Willis D. Schroeder, son of the late David J. and Gertrude Hiebert Schroeder was born on June 12, 1915 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. He graduated from Mountain Lake High School, class of 1933. Bill, as he liked to be called, was employed by the Farmers State Bank of Mountain Lake for 41 years and retired as President. He was a veteran of the armed forces during World War II, serving nearly four years in the United States Army Air Corps. Part of his service was in the Asiatic Pacific theater of operations. On July 1, 1950 he married Elsie Peterson Croze at St. John's Episcopal Church in Minneapolis. Bill was a member of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Windom, MN; a charter member of the Mountain Lake Rotary Club; and a 55 year member of the American Legion Post in Mountain Lake. Bill died on Monday afternoon, December 15, 2008, at the Sogge Memorial Good Samaritan Society in Windom. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Elsie; his sister, Gertrude Martin; and his brother Paul. Survivors include his daughter, Nancy Doherty and her husband, Robert of North Bend, WA; a sister-in-law; a brother-in-law; two nieces and two nephews; cousins and friends.