Bio: Schoenfuss, Ted – General Tel. Install/ Repairman (1973)

Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Schoenfuss, Zastrow

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 15 Feb 1973

Theodore (Ted) Schoenfuss, facility man for the past four years with the General Telephone Company, has been named installation and maintenance repairman for the Colby, Abbotsford, Owen, Withee, Loyal, Spencer, Stratford and Edgar area.

He replaces A. Zastrow, who has been transferred to Wausau, where he will serve as an inspector for construction.

Schoenfuss, 43, plans to move his wife and six children to Abbotsford, where he will construct a new home in the near future.

Schoenfuss has been with General Telephone for 20 years, starting on March 19, 1954 as an installer repairman. Since then he has held a number of positions.

He was born on February 25, 1929 and raised on Route 2, Edgar. He graduated from Stratford High School in 1948, and then worked on a dairy farm near St. Paul, Minnesota. He was drafted and served 18 months in Korea as a demolition specialist.

After service he helped his father farm, and then began employment for General Telephone.