Graduation Year | Class of 1965 |
Date of Passing | Dec 31, 2014 |
About | Jerry Lee Schlaman, age 67, died peacefully in his home in Rock Island, Wa on December 31, 2014 with his wife, Peggy Love, at his bedside. He died of a form of pancreatic cancer. Jerry was born in Grand Island, NE on June 25, 1947 to Adoph & Elise Schlaman, who preceeded him. Jerry earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Central New England College in 1977. He received the foundation for this degree through training in the U.S. Navy in nuclear power. He was a reactor operator on the USS Long Beach. After all that training and education, he worked around the United States helping design, start up and troubleshoot commercial nuclear power plants. He and Peggy married May 31, 1981 and made their first home together in Phoenix, AZ. He worked in Cleveland next and then got a job in Russellville, AR. It was in Russellville in 1988, that they were blessed by becoming parents of Sarah Elizabeth Schlaman who was so anxious to join her parents that she came 12 weeks early. She was the light of their lives. While in Arkansas, Jerry had the joy of buying an airplane and he really loved taking his family on trips around the area as well as to visit his parents in Nebraska. Jerry had a dream from his youth that we would someday own an orchard in the Wenatchee Valley. That dream came from his visit with his family in 1962 to the World's Fair in Seattle. He fell in love with the area then and was one of the lucky ones who actually filled his dream when he found their orchard in Rock Island. Jerry is survived by his wife of 33 years. He is also survived by his sister, Berneice Seymour of Spring, TX, brothers, Dick Schlaman of Grand Island and Bob Schlaman of Warm Beach, VA. He is preceeded in death by his parents and daughter Sara Elizabeth Schlaman. |