Richard (Dick) Fredrick Schmidt

December 8, 1923 - October 21, 2016

Richard Fredrick (Dick) Schmidt, 92, died peacefully at his Trumann, Arkansas home on October 21, 2016. He was born on December 8, 1923, in Omaha, Nebraska to John P. and Bertha Schmidt. On June 16, 1948, he married his sweetheart, Eva Elizabeth (Koerkenmeier) in Tipton, MO and moved to Jonesboro, AR in 1952 (and eventually Trumann, Ark 1964); they had six children. He was a member of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus. On July 29, 1943, he joined the Army and was assigned to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was assigned to the 323d Infantry and deployed to the Pacific front as a Private Tec 5. A veteran of WWII, he participated in the invasion of Northern Solomon