Harry Frederick Schumann Jr. died July 16, 2004 in San Jose at
the age of 80.
Harry Frederick Schumann Jr. died July 16, 2004 in San Jose at the age of 80.
Mr. Schumann was born in Palo Alto and attended San Jose High School and San Jose State University. He served in the U.S. Navy as a radioman. I went to the Aleutian Islands and worked in the radio stations at Kodiak and Dutch Harbor.
Mr. Schumann moved to the area to become manager of the Standard Station in Coyote and one in Gilroy.
He married Alice Eileen Jose in June 1952. The couple moved to Gilroy in 1959.
Mr. Schumann then worked as an electronic technician, test lab supervisor and test engineer, testing explosives to meet government specifications, at Teledyne McCormick/Selph in Hollister for almost 20 years. He left there in 1979 to work as a quality engineer at Lockheed Missile and Space Co. in Sunnyvale. He retired from Lockheed in March, 1992.
“I enjoyed my radio work so much in the Navy that I got my Amateur Radio License after College in 1957. It a very rewarding hobby and I have made many friends during the years that I have been active,” Mr. Schumann once said.
His amateur radio call sign was K6HWR. He was one of the founding members of the Gabilan Amateur Radio Club (GARC), and was instrumental in the communications set-up at the Garlic Festival, cooperating with local law enforcement in traffic and crowd control.
Mr. Schumann was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons (Keith Lodge), serving as Master in 1979, a member of the Magnolia Chapter (#45) OES, and a member in good standing of the U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II. He has been an elder at The Gilroy Presbyterian Church, past member of the Gilroy Elks Lodge and a member of Theta Chi fraternity.
Besides his wife Alice Eileen, Mr. Schumann is also survived by his sister Marian Minninger of San Jose children Steven “Sonny” Schumann and his wife Julie of Arroyo Grande, Valerie Schumann Bowe and her husband Michael Bowe of Los Angeles, Virginia Schumann, and Robert H. Schumann; grandchildren Melissa and Kathryn Alatorre and Robert Bimbi III of Gilroy, Jennell, Angela and Nicholas Tizzano of Arroyo Grande and Michael and Sean Bowe of Los Angeles; nieces Judy Jackson, Diane Jacks, Cheryl Gould, Susan Supan, Liane Schreffler, Caryn Kenny and their families.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Harry and Leona Schumann.
Memorial service takes place at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 3 at Gilroy Presbyterian Church.
The family asks that any donations be made to the Gilroy Presbyterian Church or to the Shriners’ Children’s Hospital.
Arrangements were by Habing Family Funeral Home.
