William C. "Bill" Schuettler, Sr.

  William C. “Bill” Schuettler, Sr., 89 of Pottsville, died Tuesday evening at Providence Place Retirement Community, Pottsville.

  He was born March 7, 1928 in Pottsville son of the late Conrad A. and Ruth M. Seltzer Schuettler.

  He was a graduate of Pottsville High School.

  He was an Army veteran having severed during the Korean War. 

  When Bill was young, he started working with his father at a Bakery making deliveries, he was later employed as an Insurance Agent for the former Lutheran Brotherhood prior to retiring.

  Bill was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church where he was a teacher for the Adult Sunday School, former member of Finance Committee and was a former church council President, a member and past president of the Pottsville Kiwanis Club where the club had renamed their Agricultural Scholarship Award to the William C. Schuettler Agricultural Scholarship Award in Bill’s honor this past November. He was also a member of the former Union Bank & Trust Board, the former Children’s Home Board, which later became the Benevolent Association Board, Million Dollar Round Table of the former Lutheran Brotherhood, and Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries. Bill was also a life member of the former Greenwood Hill Fire Company, Pottsville and volunteered his time at Luther Ridge Retirement Community, Pottsville.

  Surviving are his wife of 66 years Grace Calloway Schuettler; a son, William C. Schuettler, Jr. and his wife Susan, Port Carbon; a daughter, Susan Costello and her husband Tom, Lumberton, NJ: 4 grandchildren, Benjamin and Gregory Schuettler, Andrea Thorn and Sara Costello: Nieces, Nephews, Cousins.

  Services will be held Saturday at 11A.M. from Trinity Lutheran Church, Pottsville, with the Rev. Harold L. Hand, Jr., and Rev. Chris Rothharpt officiating. Family and friends are invited to call from 9A.M. until the time of services. Interment with military honors will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Pottsville. The family would prefer remembrances in the form contributions made to Trinity Lutheran Church, 300 W. Arch St. Pottsville PA, 17901 or Pottsville Kiwanis Foundation, P.O. Box 175, Pottsville PA, 17901.

   Arrangements are under the care of James E. Humphrey Funeral Home, Pottsville.

  Please share your memories and condolences with Bill’s family by signing the guest book at www.jehumphreyfuneralhome.com