Roland “Rollie” Schroeder

Roland “Rol­lie” L. Schroeder, 97, re­leased his spirit on May 5, 2024, and has gone to meet his maker.
He was born on De­cem­ber 25, 1926, in Theresa.
On Sep­tem­ber 27, 1947, he mar­ried Dorothy Ham­mann at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Mayville.
Roland lived a long and pros­per­ous life with his wife of 76 years, 8 months. The two were in­sep­a­ra­ble and rarely did things apart. In his final years, the cou­ple would put to­gether puz­zles, watch TV, go for walks around the block, and help with chores around their house.
Roland was hard-work­ing, hon­est, faith­ful, re­li­gious, coura­geous, and ad­ven­tur­ous. Roland en­joyed big game hunt­ing, fish­ing, snow­mo­bil­ing, bird watch­ing, trav­el­ing to the Caribbean, and he was a life­time sup­porter of the Green Bay Pack­ers. Roland was a long­time mem­ber of St. Stephens Lutheran Church, Hori­con. He loved to be out­doors and spent qual­ity time with his fam­ily and friends. He was an ac­tive mem­ber of the Mayville Lions Club.
Roland grew up in Theresa and worked on the fam­ily farm at a young age. Roland served in the US Army dur­ing the Ko­rean War be­tween Sep­tem­ber 19, 1952 – Sep­tem­ber 18, 1954. In June 2016, he had the op­por­tu­nity to take the Honor Flight to Wash­ing­ton DC. “Every Day is a Bonus”. When Roland re­turned from Korea, he began work­ing as a car­pen­ter ap­pren­tice build­ing homes. After years of learn­ing, Roland started his own com­pany – Roland Schroeder Builders – and built homes for much of his life.
Roland is sur­vived by his wife, Dorothy; two sons, David (Chris­tine) Schroeder and Robert (Terese) Schroeder; and daugh­ter, Bar­bara (Michael) Knut­son; grand­chil­dren, Alyssa, Austin (Amalia) Schroeder, Adrian (Lau­ren) Schroeder; Dustin Schroeder (Tami Sankey), Eliott (Stacey) Schroeder; Ash­ley Mau­rer, Kelsey (Joseph Clemons II), Chelsey (Jason) Indra; great-grand­chil­dren, Ar­i­anna, Dreyson, Aubrey and Ella Schroeder; Joseph III and Jor­dan Clemons; Is­abella and Alina Indra. Roland is fur­ther sur­vived by Joanne Ham­mann and Betty (Rus­sell) Kempf.
Roland was pre­ceded in death by his par­ents, Hed­wig and Erich (step­fa­ther) Pluede­man; his step-brother, Rus­sell Pluede­man; and sis­ter-in-law, Lor­raine Pluede­man; in-laws, Carl & Viola (Roten­berg) Ham­mann; broth­ers-in-law, Art Ham­mann, Ken Ham­mann, Lloyd Metke, Del­mar Sauer and Ken Sell­now; sis­ters-in-law, Ber­nice Metke, Helen Sauer and Eileen Sell­now.
Fu­neral ser­vices for Rol­lie will be held on Sat­ur­day, May 11, at 3:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Ev. Lutheran Church in Hori­con, with Rev. Mark Wilkens of­fi­ci­at­ing. A vis­i­ta­tion for Rol­lie will be held at church on Sat­ur­day, May 11, from 1:30 p.m. until the time of ser­vice at 3:30 p.m. Fol­low­ing the ser­vice, grave­side mil­i­tary hon­ors will be con­ducted by the Hori­con Amer­i­can Le­gion Post # 157 at Oak Hill Ceme­tery in Hori­con.
The fam­ily wishes to sin­cerely thank the staff at the Marsh­field Med­ical Cen­ter in Beaver Dam, and the stu­dent nurses from the Moraine Park Tech­ni­cal Col­lege (nurs­ing pro­gram) for their at­ten­tion to de­tail and ex­cel­lent care. VA Ser­vices, Beaver Dam, 911 ser­vices of Hori­con. A spe­cial thank you to Pas­tor Wilkens from St. Stephens Lutheran Church and Koepsell Fu­neral Home for their care and sup­port dur­ing this time.
Koepsell Fu­neral Home in Mayville is car­ing for the fam­ily. www.​Koepsellfh.​com