Richard L. "Dick" Schrom

Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:00 a.m. on Friday, April 15, 2011 at St. Augustine’s Catholic Church in St. Cloud for Richard L. “Dick” Schrom, 70 of Grey Eagle formerly of St. Cloud who passed away on Saturday, April 9, 2011 at the Melrose Area Hospital. Reverend Ronald Dockendorf will officiate. Burial will take place at Assumption Cemetery in St. Cloud.

Family and friends may call from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Thursday and after 9:00 a.m. on Friday at the Daniel Funeral Home in St. Cloud. The East Side Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #4847 ritual will be held at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday at the funeral home in St. Cloud.

Dick was born on April 6, 1941 in St. Cloud, Minnesota to Frank and Eleanor (Steffes) Schrom. He served his country in the U.S. Marine Corps. Dick married Joyce A. “Buckie” Prow on June 12, 1963 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Waite Park. He was employed as journeyman plumber and pipefitter by Gorham-Oien for many years retiring in 1996. Dick was a member of St. Joseph’s Parish in Grey Eagle, the East Side Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #4847, the Marine Corps League Valhalla Detachment #171 and Pipefitters Union Local #539.

Survivors include his wife, Joyce “Buckie” of Grey Eagle; children, Debbie (Bruce) Thomas of Prior Lake, Dean (Stephanie) of St. Cloud, Sandy of Shakopee, Tim of New Brighton; five grandchildren, Steven M. and Nicole Schrom and Brianna, Matthew and Erica Thomas; sisters and brothers, Joyce Rasmussen of Spring Lake Park, Dennis of St. Cloud and Kathy Medenwaldt of Zimmerman.

He was preceded in death by his parents; son, Steven S.; brothers, Gerald and James.