Obituary - Lynn F. Schwandt, Jr.

Lynn F. Schwandt Jr., 56, Potlatch resident

POTLATCH -- Lynn F. Schwandt Jr., a Potlatch farmer and certified lumber grader, died Saturday at his home of cancer. He was 56.

He was born at Lewiston Dec. 12, 1929, the son of Lynn F. and Pearl Schwandt. He lived in the Lewiston area until 1948, attending schools at Tammany, Lewiston and Pe Ell, Wash.

He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1948 and served until 1952. He returned that year to Lewiston, where he married Helen J. Thompson July 2, 1952.

Schwandt worked for several years driving tractor for Tammany-area farmers and also was employed by the Potlatch Corp. at Lewiston from 1953 until 1963, when he moved to Wallowa, Ore.

He worked at various sawmills in eastern Oregon before returning to Idaho in 1965. During the next four years he worked at mills at Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene, and Sandpoint. He moved to Keuterville in 1969 and to Potlatch in 1971.

He was a farmer and also employed as a certified lumber grader by the Bennett Lumber Co. at Princeton.

Schwandt was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at Keuterville. He enjoyed farming and raising Hereford cattle.

Survivors include his wife, Helen, at the family home at Potlatch; two sons, Arlen E. Schwandt at Centralia, Wash., and Brian K. Schwandt at Albuquerque, N.M.; three daughters, Susan McAllister of St. Maries and Robin Schacher and Rosalyn Long of Cottonwood; his mother, Pearl Robison of Centralia; three sisters, Vivian Justice of Chehalis, Wash., and Wilma Cox and Thelma Fluke of Pe Ell; a brother, William Schwandt of Lewiston; and nine grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his father, his stepmother and a brother.

Visitation hours at Malcom's Brower-Wann Memorial Chapel at Lewiston will be from noon to 7 p.m. Tuesday and from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Malcom's Brower-Wann Memorial Chapel, and burial will follow at Lewis-Clark Memorial Gardens, with members of the Keuterville Richards Jacobs Post, No. 4902, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars conducting graveside services.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of the Palouse at Moscow.

Lewiston Tribune, February 10, 1986
Transcribed by Jill Leonard Nock