Walter Fredrick Schoech Papers

Walter Fredrick Schoech was born on August 14, 1914 in Perry County, Missouri. After graduating from Saint Paul College (Concordia, Missouri), Schoech enrolled at Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis. He graduated from the Seminary in 1939 and was ordained at First Lutheran Church in Clearwater, Florida in 1941. He served that congregation until 1944, when he accepted a call to Saint Paul Lutheran Church in Decatur, Alabama. In 1946, Schoech accepted a call to Redeemer Lutheran Church in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he served until his retirement in 1979. Walter Schoech died on February 24, 2002 in West Palm Beach, Florida.