Aline Star Cemetery, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma

CLEO SPRINGS — Graveside services for Paul Schroeder will be Sunday, June 5, 2011, at 2 p.m. at Aline Star Cemetery with Martin Bush, pastor, hospice chaplain officiating. Wharton Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be made at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com.

Paul Ray, son of Mary Helen (Sparks) and Pete Schroeder was born on the family farm near Cleo Springs, Oklahoma, on October 16, 1938. He passed away at his home in Paola, Kansas, with Hospice Care after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease on the 2nd day of June at the age of 72 years, 6 months and 17 days.

He attended the Ruby rural grade school for one year, then the Cleo Springs School System, where he graduated with the class of 1956. After graduating he joined the U.S. Army and was stationed in Korea for a year and a half. Paul attended OSU and Northwestern State College, majoring in history and economics.

On June 28, 1968, in Pawnee, Oklahoma, he was married to Judy Conner. Following their marriage they made their home in Enid, Oklahoma.

Paul started working in the food service industry, establishing Popeye’s Chicken Franchises. In 1987 they were moved to the Kansas City area. In 2002 he retired due to his Parkinson’s disease.

His hobbies consisted of rebuilding international tractors, collecting toy international tractors, rebuilding lawn mowers, tinkering in the barn and caring for his Studebaker Avanti.

He was a member of the Nazarene Church in Cleo Springs.

Mr. Schroeder is preceded in death by his father, a sister and two brothers.

Paul is survived by his wife Judy of the home, three children and their spouses; Coletta and Alan Wharton of Alva, Oklahoma, Jerry Ray and Julie Schroeder of Seattle, Washington, and Eyvette and Larry Herman of Hugoton, Kansas; seven grandchildren and one great-granddaughter; his mother Mary Helen, of Enid, Oklahoma; two sisters, Phyllis and Vernon Hood of Pineville, Missouri and Wanda and Mark Kiner of Perry, Oklahoma; a number of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Memorial contributions may be made in his memory to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation for Parkinson’s disease.

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