Merlin H. Schueller of Waterloo died at Allen Memorial Hospital on Friday, August 31, 2007, of natural causes.

He was born in Dubuque, Iowa the son of Andrew J. and Marie Pohlman Schueller.

He married Betty Jane Price on June 30, 1953 in Preston, Minnesota. She died August 14, 2001.

Merlin worked on the railroad for thirty-eight years with three different companies, the Illinois Central, Chicago-Great Western and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls and Northern Railroad, retiring in 1984.

He was a medical corpsman serving in the US. Navy during WWII and Korean War. Merlin received the Silver Star Medal and two Purple Heart medals.

Merlin was a Life Member of Disabled American Veterans (DAV) and member of the National Assoc. of Retired and Veteran Railway Employees (NARV). He loved being an “Outdoors Man” in the woods at Harpers Ferry. He loved to chop wood. After Betty passed away, He enjoyed attending Military Reunions across the United States.

He is survived by stepson L. R. Mahncke and his wife Sandy of Largo, Florida, stepdaughter Barbara Jack of Ponca City, Oklahoma, stepdaughter Cathy Brandt and her husband Rod of Lansing, Iowa, stepson Joseph Price and his wife Vicki of Lansing, Iowa, several step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren, and two sisters: Rosemary Armentrout of Waterloo, and Sr. Marlene Schueller of Dubuque.

Merlin is preceded in death by his wife; infant son and daughter, step-grandson, brother Cletus, and two sisters: Doris Dingbaum and Rita Schueller.