********************************************************************** Dale Lloyd Schroder 29 December 2015 *********************************+************************************ 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 *********************************+************************************ 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