
Class of 1953
1953 Maroon Spotlight
Lucille Steichen
Library Staff 50-53, Glee Club 52-53.
1953 Graduation EditionPerry Daily Journal
Before coming to Perry schools, Lucille Marie Steichen was a student at Pleasant Hill rural school. She is the 19-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nick J. Steichen of route 2, Perry, and was born March 8, 1934, in Perry. Miss Steichen plans to work as a secretary following graduation. She has been in the glee club this year, and for two years previously served on the library staff.
Lucille Marie (Steichen) Schultz
March 8, 1934 – April 20, 2018
Lucille Steichen Schultz, 84, went home to be with her Lord and Savior Friday, April 20, 2018, at her home, surrounded by her loving family.
Born March 8, 1934, north of Perry, she was the daughter of Nick J. and Rosa (Rolling) Steichen. She attended her first three years of school northeast of Perry at Pleasant Hill, and then transferred to Perry where she went to Perry Elementary School and was a 1953 graduate of Perry High School.
After graduation, she stayed at home with her parents until she went to work as a telephone operator, at which time she moved to Perry and lived with her sister Katherine.
Lucille loved to play the piano, such songs as Black Hawk Waltz, Over the Waves, and Star of the East. She was playing the piano “by ear,” before she ever began taking lessons. She loved playing outside games with her sister.
She met Pete M. Schultz at a fund raiser at Oak Dale School. Pete asked Lucille to walk for him in a cake walk. They started dating and were married June 1, 1957, at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Perry. They established their first home in Perry, then moved and purchased a home in Enid where their son Marvin was born in 1958.
They moved back to Perry and lived west of town on the Edgar Place, where their daughter Rhonda was born. They moved east of town where they lived for six years, then northwest of Stillwater for 26 years. Canning and gardening, working side by side with Pete, the two were almost inseparable. When you saw one, you saw the other. She also worked at Mistletoe Express as a secretary; and was a homemaker, mother, and grandmother.
In 1992 the family moved to the Schultz family farm, where Pete was reared, and their home at the time of her death
She was preceded in death by her parents; brother Ed Steichen, and sister Katherine Steichen.
She is survived by her husband, Pete, of the home, a daughter and son, Rhonda Schultz and Marvin Schultz and his wife Sherry; eight grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren; her twin sister, Luella Cink, Enid, Oklahoma, and another sister, Deloris Quinn of San Antonio, Texas; and many nieces and nephews, of whom a large number stayed at the farm with Pete and Lucille during the summer, sometimes working and helping with the farm work.
Funeral service will be held on Thursday, April 26, 2018, at 1:00p.m., at The Assembly of God Church in Perry. Interment will follow at Polo Cemetery.