Services for Milo Schomacker are at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, at Zion Lutheran Church, rural Hartford, S.D. Burial is at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, at Kenneth Lutheran Cemetery in Kenneth.
Milo Schomacker 53, Hartford, died of cancer on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2002.
Milo Schomacker was born to Roy and Pearl Schomacker on July 20, 1949, in Le Mars, Iowa. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1969 to 1971 at Pearl Harbor. He drove truck for Emmett Gangestad. In October 1972 he began driving truck in South Dakota. He went independent owner-operator in 1978. He drove for Hunt Transport until ill health forced retirement in 2001.
He married Ruth (Semmler) Hofer on Aug. 24, 1985.
Survivors include his wife, Ruth Schomacker; two sons, Sean Hofer and Kelly Schomacker; one daughter, Stacy Franka; three grandchildren, Kaitlen, Shayla, and Marah; his mother, Pearl Schomacker; four brothers, LeRoy (Glenda) Schomacker, Roger (Pam) Schomacker, Bryce Schomacker, and Randy (Sharon) Schomacker; one sister, Sharon (Mike) Kinsinger, all of Luverne.
Miller Funeral Home, Sioux Falls, S.D., is in charge of arrangements.