THE WALL OF FACES

PFC Edward A. Schultz' grave is located at the San Luis Cemetery in San Luis Obispo, CA.

I was the first grandchild to make Eddy an uncle at the age of three. I followed him around the farm where he was my hero long before we ever heard the word Viet Nam. I helped him milk the cows, play with the bow and arrow, ride the go-carts. He inspired me to get the last drop of ice cream by swishing water in the empty bowl and drinking it, he saved my life when I started to fall down a steep embankment, he inspired his own parents to start going to church when he was just a boy of nine. He didn't choose to go to war. He was drafted at a time when his adult life was just beginning. He had always wanted to grow up to manage a ranch, and he was well on his way. He had been FFA President and won the State Farmer's Award. He was dedicated to family and church. He told me just before he left not to worry...that more people were killed on the freeways than in Viet Nam. When we were kids and playing cowboys and indians he made up a rule that you could count to 10 and come back to life. Though 43 years have passed, I am still counting and wishing it were so simple.

Edward A. Schultz was a 1965 graduate from San Luis Obispo High School in San Luis Obispo, CA.

This Eternal Light was placed in remembrance of Edward A. Schultz in the sanctuary of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in San Luis Obispo, CA.

San Luis Obispo County Telegram-Tribune Tuesday, March 19, 1968



VITAL STATISTICS



Obituaries



Edward A. Schultz



A funeral service will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Zion Lutheran Church for Pfc. Edward August Schultz of San Luis Obispo. The 21-year-old Army infantryman was killed in action in Vietnam on March 4.



Pfc. Schultz, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Schultz of San Luis Obispo, was born here on Oct. 8, 1946.



A 1965 graduate of San Luis Obispo High School, he attended Cuesta College for two years. He was active in track and wrestling at both schools and was high school president of the Future Farmers of America chapter.



He had won the State Farmers Degree, the Bank of America award in agriculture and the California Banker’s award for the FFA. He was a communicant member of Zion Lutheran Church.



Survivors include the parents; two sisters, Mrs. Sandra Melendez and Mrs. Lorine Ludwick of San Luis Obispo; two brothers, Carl S. Schultz of San Jose and Gary E. Schultz of San Diego, and paternal grandmother, Mrs. Jessie Schultz of Arroyo Grande.



The family requests contributions to a memorial fund in his memory. The fund will be used for a sanctuary lamp for the Zion Lutheran Church.