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Dale Lloyd Schroder 29 December 2015
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Dale Lloyd Schroder was born on a farm in Eddyville,
Nebraska in 1925. The family resettled in Chico, California,
where Dale went to school and worked as a bicycle delivery
boy for the local pharmacy. After graduating from Chico
High School, he went to work on an oil exploration field
crew for Geophysical Services Incorporated in 1944. The
crew moved all over the western United States and to Canada,
where he met his wife, Allie Solland. After they were
married, they moved almost 50 times for GSI. He studied Electronics
and worked his way up to Instrument Man, running the Recording Truck
that was the technical center of the process. The crew collected
Seismic data, searching for oil, throughout the wilds of western
Canada. About four years later, they were transferred to the United
States, to Cody, Wyoming where their daughter Joanne was born. He was
promoted to Party Chief and the family moved to California, Colorado,
Montana, back to Wyoming, New Mexico, and Utah. When the Instruments
division of GSI grew into Texas Instruments, Dale was transferred to
their Dallas headquarters in 1962 to learn more about those new things
called computers. When TI opened a data processing center in New
Orleans, Dale was sent there to help set it up. He was transferred to
Houston in 1964. A few years later, the couple was blessed with the
baby boy they had been hoping for, for so long. As TI grew, Dale was
transferred one more time, from the SW Freeway Data Processing Center
out to their Stafford complex. He was with TI for over 40 years.
Dale was preceded in death by his beloved wife Allie Schroder and his
younger sister Norma. He is survived by his daughter Joanne Owens, his
son David Schroder, his granddaughter Courtney Marie Schroder, and two
Great Granddaughters, Zoe Schroder Cox and Kylie Schroder Cox.
A funeral service will be held at Earthman Bellaire Funeral Home on
Wednesday December 30th at 10:00 am and burial at Woodlawn cemetery
following
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Dale was a great guy. I met Dale in Cody when the crew moved there..
I was working at the Frontier gas station the crew used. He and Ted
Sherman convinced me that I would enjoy working for GSI. Forty years
later I was still sure they were right. They were just two of the great
people I met and worked with all those years and all those places.
Bob Nebel.
Corinth/Denton Texas