Douglas Schauer

Douglas Schauer, age 74 of Arlington passed away Thursday, October 18, 2018 at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. Memorial services will be 3:00 p.m. Sunday, November 4th at Zion Lutheran Church, Arlington. A gathering of family and friends will be held two hours prior to service time Sunday at the church. Interment will be in the Arlington Public Cemetery. Kolden Funeral Home of Arlington is assisting the family with arrangements. Douglas Carl Arthur Schauer was born on March 16, 1944 in New Ulm to Vernon and Marie (Bogatzki) Schauer. He was baptized at St. John's Lutheran Church, Arlington Township and confirmed at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Arlington. Doug was a 1962 graduate of Arlington-Green Isle High School. On November 25, 1966 he married Bobette Woehler at Zion United Church of Christ in LeSueur. Doug worked at the Arlington Cement Works, Farmhand in Green Isle, worked as a machinist at Waconia Manufacturing from 1964 until 1988 and then became the plant Superintendent at the canning company in Arlington from May 1988 until his retirement from work on June 1, 2006. Doug was a former member of the Arlington A's Baseball Board, a Arlington Lion's Club member and a member of the Sibley County Choral Society. In his retirement he restored pre-WWII pressed steel toys, enjoyed mowing and grooming the lawn and was a fortunate golfer in that he achieved hitting a hole-in-one. He enjoyed watching Andy Griffith reruns, John Wayne movies, WWII movies and documentaries, American Pickers and watching WWE wrestling with grandson Sam. Doug is preceded in death by his parents Vernon and Marie, two step mothers Cora and Elsie, his brother Dennis Schauer and his parents-in-law Robert and Marion Woehler. Doug is survived by his wife Bobette Schauer of Arlington, children Linnea (Craig) Bullert of Arlington, Matthew (Laura) Schauer of Janesville, Anne (Lee) Rood of Rush City, grandchildren Michael Bullert (fiancé Megan Kauffmann), Samuel Bullert, Lukas Bullert (fiancé Megan Eckberg), Ashtyn Bullert, Jaynie (Nick) Lloyd, Erik Schauer, Emily Borneke, Erin Borneke, Allyson, Braeden and Natalie Rood, uncle Glenn Schauer of Arlington, sister-in-law Lois Schauer of Savage, Bobette's siblings, Anita Woehler of Falls Church, VA, Leanna (John) Fluegge of New Ulm, Andrea (Todd) Brinkman of Lafayette and John (Lana) Woehler of Arlington as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

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