To those who knew him as Shelby, George Shelby Schulte, was a good and caring husband, father, brother, papa, great-grandfather, uncle and friend. At 93, he peacefully passed away in Kansas City, MO, at Veteran's Hospital, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Interment will take place at Leavenworth National Military Cemetery in Leavenworth, Kansas on Thursday, May 2nd, at 11:00 a.m.
George, or Shelby to his family, was born in St. Joseph, Missouri to George Daniel Schulte and Nellie Grace Milne and grew up in Oregon, Missouri. He was survived by high school sweetheart and was loving husband to Mary for seventy years, brother William Dallas Schulte, son Dr. Stephen Schulte and wife Debbie and daughter Susan Ronnekamp and husband Kurt. They have three grandchildren, Rebecca and husband Jon Schilling, Anna and husband Philip Marinello and Jacob Ronnekamp. They also have nine great-grandchildren; Asher, Katelyn, Emma, Olivia, Brynlee, Grant, and Hazel Schilling and Ezra and Leeland Marinello as well as many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a sister Mary Marie Miller.
High school Valedictorian, Shelby then attended The University of Kansas where he received his Bachelors of Science and Master's degrees in Geology and was in ROTC there. He received the Erasmus Haworth Honor Award for leadership as an outstanding Master's Degree senior in geology. He went on to work in the oil and natural gas industry as a geologist for several years. He served as a Naval officer for three years where he was stationed overseas in The South China Seas, Japan and trained in Europe for a total of nine years serving his country.
George served with "A" Division as an Auxiliary Machinery Officer on The USS El Dorado and was stationed at one time on The USS Missouri as a Midshipman with a battle station being a sixteen-inch turret.
Later, he entered the computer systems field and spent thirty-one years designing and installing large scale computer systems. He retired from Hallmark Cards as Director of Data Resource Management. He was a member of Lenexa Baptist Church, TKE Fraternity, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #846, volunteered in Boy Scouts of America, Mic-O-Say, and was involved with Creation Science Association of Mid America where he had many friends. He enjoyed golfing and spending time encouraging, guiding and inspiring his family.
Shelby was a believer in Christ and avid in his Bible studies. He was a member of Lenexa Baptist Church and taught Biblical Creation courses at church and at Christ Prep High School. He also spent a number of years teaching and writing about the Biblical and scientific evidence supporting the account of the Creation. He based his course on the Bible and the two editions of the book he authored and published entitled, "Darwin's Origins of Species...Science or Fantasy?" He gave interviews, speeches, book events on the topic and was even planning to start a blog into his nineties.
He was loved and will truly be missed, as we are comforted that he has gone to be with his Lord and Savior.
The family suggests contributions be made to The City Union Mission and Lenexa Baptist Church.