Note: Before the Family History Expo in November, the Arizona Daily Star asked readers to submit family names to see what could be found on newspapers.com. There were many submissions, so we spent 30 minutes on some of them to see what we could find and will present several in the coming months.
Katherine Clements Schodde, the mother of Karen Schodde Woods, and son Stephen Schodde. The photo appeared in the Des Moines Register on May 12, 1936.
Karen Ann Schodde Woods was able to give us her parents and grandparents full names, which was enough to start a search.
After a 30-minute search of the names in newspapers.com, this is what we gathered from both wedding and funeral announcements, which we believe are Woods’ family and not a coincidence:
The wedding of Woods’ parents, Glen William Schodde and Katherine Francesca Clements in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, appears to have been a social event. A notice was published in the Daily Times of Davenport, Iowa, saying two local “girls” would participate in the festivities. The wedding was June 19, 1933.
Glen Schodde had a brother named Harold who was a dentist. Katherine Clements Schodde’s sister, Rebecca, married Vernon Victor sometime after she served as her sister’s maid of honor.
Karen Schodde Woods and her husband, Charles Woods, were commissioned as Methodist missionaries in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1967.
Woods’ mother, Katherine Clements Schodde, passed away May 16, 1973, in El Paso, Texas. Her obituary names survivors as her husband, Glen, and sons Stephen and David, though not her daughter Karen, which may have been a mistake by the newspaper or the submitter.
An obituary for Mae Deets Schodde, who passed away in Tucson in 1999, indicates that Woods’ father, Glen Schodde, married her after his wife, Katherine’s, death. We feel fairly confident this is correct because of her stepchildren’s names. A next step would be to search for wedding announcements and obituaries for Glen and Katherine Schodde’s parents.
