Parcourez la nécrologie de Ronald George Schultz Monday September 11th 2023 résidant dans la province Manitoba pour le détail des funérailles
Peacefully passed away Monday afternoon at the Seven Oaks Hospital. Left to mourn is his son Gary (Helga), grandchildren Darcy (Wendy), Kimberley (Shane), daughter in law Joan and her children Cameron (Lexi), Amberlee (Jeff) and eight great grandchildren. Ron was predeceased by his wife Frances in 2022 and son Kenneth in 1986.
A special thank you to the staff at Health Sciences Centre and Seven Oaks for their wonderful care.
Cremation has taken place. A Celebration of Life for Ron and Frances will be scheduled at a later date for family.
Ronald George Schultz’s Life Story according to my Dad (family man, repairman, fisherman, gardener, baker)
Thank you for all the Life Lessons. Love you both.
Ron said he used to be pulled out of school for many years to help his father with the fall harvest.
He said he would run barefoot all summer as a kid & the soles of his feet were as tough as leather by fall. For school in the fall his mother would order him new shoes from Eaton’s.
Ron was a hard worker & his father was really unhappy when he left & got married.
One time his father took him into the town hotel with him, when he was under age & the bartender did not want to serve him, but his father said “he is doing the work of a man so bring him a beer, which he did.”
Hauled stokes/threshed at Snow Flake-La Riviere MB.
During War 1, worked at Burt Irvings farm & Chester Givings farm (while his brother Elmer was in the war) & because Chester – suffered from a virus- sleeping sickness from horses)
1947 in the winter worked at Vermillion Bay – worked in the bush for Minnesota Pulp & Paper. He drilled holes in the high point of rock cliffs, so they could bring down spruce & jack pine from up top for pulp (they had to clear cut everything) (red rot in Jack pine- you got paid less – they used it for fire wood in huts). He hauled out the trees that were hard to get at with the horses. Some trees were in a swamp. He stacked wood up in cords. He did not cut that many trees for pulp, as a Japanese man had a new invented chain saw that just came out – so he was able to cut a lot in a day.
1948 worked on Tom Duncan’s farm from March to the fall. Gary was born in Morden in September.
1949 in the spring went to Flin Flon (his brother Art said to come there as they were hiring there). Dad could not get hired on-(he figured because Art had fits-so the boss maybe thought it ran in the family). So Dad helped a contractor build houses there.
1950 worked on a farm for W.J. (Bill) Collins- a miser – who didn’t pay much- $60.00 a month +milk & eggs – he did field work & after a boy who milked the 12 cows quit, Bill wanted Dad to milk them with no increase in pay. (Dad lent the boy money to go to Saskatchewan to work for a farmer there- he paid Ron back later).
Quit there & got a job working for Bullocks in Wpg. They made Prairie Pride furnaces for Eaton’s Co. (Lawrence Lumley worked there & then got laid off)– general labourer- he ground off welds, welded holes & re-sanded –was laid off.
Hired on at Dominion Bridge on Dublin (Lawrence Lumley also worked there).
1950-51 worked part time for T.A. Duncan in the winter (small company on Erin St.) hauled 20 – 30 100 lb. bags of coal on his back from Dave’s big truck to homes for heating.
1951 Went to work at Sherwin Williams Paints for 2 months (Jack Roden got him a job packing paint).
1951 worked at CNR shops in Fort Rouge Wpg. filling coal buckets to go up to the coal dock & then emptied them into the coal tender on the steam engine for only one month – then he was the steam engine light up man, he had to start a small fire before adding more coal – then a boiler makers helper- then firing the steam engine then he was a stoker on the locomotives.
In July 1952 Kenneth was born.
1954 he was laid off from boiler maker
1954-1958 was on the spare board – started firing steam engines on the road Wpg. East to Redditt Ontario & West to Rivers MB. (NW of Brandon) laid off in December. Because he was in Rivers he worked for a month to replace someone who was sick at Rivers MB., moving the engines in & out of the round house. Laid off at the end of January 1958
One time he said he walked on the cat walk to the front of the engine to replace the engine’s light bulb, rather than having the engineer stop the train. It was dangerous on a moving train. He also had to catch the orders tied to a “y” stick while the train was moving past a station house. If he missed the engineer had to stop the train & he would have to walk back & get them.
1958 -1966 worked for Winnipeg Supply repairing furnaces. Tough job as he had to be on call some days.
1966-74 worked for Hobart (repairing commercial equipment-scales, bread mixers, dishwashers, etc.)
1974 worked for Paulin Chambers for a few months repairing equipment (311 Ross Ave. Wpg.)
1974 in the fall until 1988 worked at the Health Sciences Hospital maintenance & manager of the various equipment in the kitchen.
1988-1992 worked for Williams Restaurant- part time repairing bakery equipment, etc. in their shop.
Ron, Frances & Gary lived upstairs at 234 Bell Ave. (Jack, Pauline & Brian Roden lived downstairs)???
They lived at friends on the 3rd floor of a house on McMillan for 2-3 weeks (Larry & Audrey Head (Bonnie)??Not sure about Roden’s & Head-switch)?
In 1955, Ron, Frances, Gary & Kenneth moved from 793 Nassau St. (Mrs. Paul’s) in Fort Rouge to 717 Pandora Ave. with no basement in Transcona 1955. Fred Hilderman built the2 bedroom house & also one to the East of Moroz St. in the next block. At the time they hauled all their water from a standpipe at the corner of Pandora Ave & King St. now called Plessis Road. The house was heated by an oil burner in the center of the house. Under the house Dad dug out a small area that had a 45 gallon drum that caught the grey water, and when it was full it automatically pumped out onto the garden. He also dug a hole at the back of his property & built an outhouse. There was metal toilet with a 5 gallon pail in the house that had to be emptied into the outhouse. Ron built a garage (framed with lumber from CNR) where he put a big freezer up on cinder blocks (it was purchased from McLeods on Higgins & it is still running to this day). A water line was installed down the street in 1957 & sewer in 1958.
Ron & Frances moved to 1005 Hoka St. in April 1963 or 64? (The house was built in 1959).
Dad met Frances when he volunteered to drive a group of girls to play baseball. Ron said one of the girls once hopped in the front seat beside him after a game, and Frances told her to sit in the back as the front seat beside Ron was her spot. They started going out for a while, but then Ron and Frances thought they were too young, so they broke up. But after a while Frances’ Mother Ellen/Ella met Dad one day & asked why doesn’t he come over anymore and visit Frances as she was just keeps moping around the house, so he did. They married on Oct. 25, 1947 at ages 21 & 18.
Dad & Mom went South to Texas ( while still working for Williams- he figured the money he earned paid for the rent of a trailer down South at the Magic Valley Trailer Park-Texas. They first rented a trailer for 1 month. (Eileen & Russ’s), 2nd time down rented a trailer for 2 months. (Marg & Will’s), 3rd time down, they rented a different trailer for 3 months.
Stayed at a trailer in Strawberry Square Mobile Home in Plant City, Florida 2 different times. Ron & Fran rented for a month one time. They toured around & went to the Florida Keys, Smokey Mountains Tennessee for 3 weeks before they came back up to Canada.
Frances unfortunately passed away one week before their 75th wedding anniversary on Oct. 18, 2022. For the last 4.5 years she had been living in a personal care home, but Ron always went to visit her many times every week. With Frances not home to bake or cook anymore, Ron started baking cookies, tarts, cakes & making borsht. The beets & beans in the soup were from his large garden. He always had frozen packages in his old freezer in the basement).
Ron met Jack Derry at CN & they became great friends, who swam together at the gravel pits, & fished together for many years.
Ron, Frances, Gary & Kenny spent a lot of time camping & fishing in the Whiteshell, as well as many other lakes. Ron & Frances first started to rent cottages at White Lake & Breton. Then they bought a tent trailer, and after that a truck camper.
When Kenny passed away on Oct 14, 1986 at 34, that broke their hearts. But hopefully with Kenny & Joan’s 2 children and Gary & Paulette’s 2 children that lessened their pain, as they were always taking them camping or having them over for a visit or looking after them in their younger days.
Ron & Frances enjoyed curling for many years. Ron was still stick-curling before Covid hit. They both loved to dance. They were party people, and you could bet there were lots of parties in their basement at 1005 Hoka St. They also enjoyed going to the Seniors Center for a Tuesday lunch and to play pool, darts & socialize. They both worked at growing big gardens at their homes.
Ron was Mr. Fix-it, and if something was broken he was sure to figure out what was wrong & get it working again.
Ron & Frances were Very Loving Parents/Grandparents that taught their children & grand children many things about having fun, chores, how to fix things, how to fish & do many things to be successful in their lives.
Monday September 11th 2023
Nos plus sincères sympathies à la famille et aux amis de Ronald George Schultz Monday September 11th 2023..
Décès pour la Ville: Oakbank, Province: Manitoba
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