Theodore Schrand, brewery bottler - obit

Sunday, November 21, 2004 Theodore Schrand, brewery bottler WWII veteran served in Pacific

By Chris Mayhew Enquirer staff writer

COVINGTON - Theodore Courtney Schrand met his wife, Rita, in 1946 at the old Bavarian Brewery in Covington, a place where he rose to bottling superintendent. He retired when the brewery closed in the early 1960s.

Mr. Schrand began working at the brewery when he was 16 and still in high school in 1938.

Mr. Schrand died Wednesday at St. Charles Care Center in Covington. He was

  1. "We met at the brewery...I worked in the shipping office," his wife said.

The Schrands married on Nov. 28, 1946, and Saturday would have been their

58th anniversary. They lived on Burdsall Avenue in Fort Mitchell from 1954 to 2002.

Mr. Schrand oversaw the bottling process at Bavarian, arriving at work at

6 a.m. every day, his wife said. When the brewery closed, he helped to sell and remove much of the equipment.

He then took a job as a warehouse worker for the John R. Green Co. until the late 1980s.

Born in Covington, he grew up on 12th Street, almost directly across from the Bavarian Brewery.

Mr. Schrand graduated from Covington Catholic High School and served with the Marines in the Pacific during World War II in Guadalcanal and New Zealand.

Mr. Schrand coached all three of his daughters on the Blessed Sacrament parish softball team, and when he was 60, he played softball on his son's teams, his wife said.

Blessed Sacrament didn't provide the girls softball team with uniforms, so he pushed for the girls to have a bake sale after Mass that made enough money to let them buy matching shirts.

Mr. Schrand made a big deal out of birthdays, and was a "jokester," who was quick-witted, his wife said.

Mr. Schrand displayed his humor with the nicknames he gave to his family, said his daughter, Cindy Schrand of Covington.

"My mom's name was Moose, and she's a tiny little lady," she said.

Other family nicknames were "Dude, Pete and Din" for his daughters, and his son's nickname was "Bones" when he was young and "Waffle" when he got older, she said.

"He never called any of us by our real names - we all had nicknames," she said.

Other survivors include his son, Steven Courtney Schrand; two other daughters, Sue Kramer and Patti Uhling; a sister, Mary Evelyn Hebbeler; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Services have been held. Don Catchen & Son Funeral Home in Elsmere handled arrangements. Burial was in St. John Cemetery in Fort Mitchell. Memorials can be made to any charity.

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