Phone Company Manager Elmo Sterling Koschel Dies
Times Picayune  08-25-1996

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Elmo Sterling Koschel, a retired employee of Southern Bell Telephone Co. and
lecturer, died Friday at Pendleton Memorial Methodist Hospital. He was 78.

Mr. Koschel was born in New Orleans and lived in Mandeville for the past 18
years. He attended Loyola University and did graduate studies at Syracuse
University.

He worked for the telephone company from 1936 to 1977 in New Orleans, Lake
Charles, Alexandria, Atlanta and Jackson, Miss., as a sales manager,
industrial development manager and marketing supervisor. He gave talks
nationwide on sales and helped make a widely shown film, "Hats of a Salesman."

He was the author of "Suggestions for the Waiter, Waitress and Bellman" and
"Wear Them With Pride."

He was a past president of the Louisiana Travel Promotion Association, the
Sales Marketing Executives Association of New Orleans, the Exchange Club of
Lake Charles, the Argonne Property Owners Association, the Vista Park Civic
Improvement Committee, the Telephone Pioneers of America and the John F.
Kennedy High School PTA. He was active with the United Fund, the WYES-TV
Auction, the New Orleans Summer Pops and many other civic and community
organizations.

He was an Army major during World War II, serving in Europe with the 3rd Army,
and received the Bronze Star and three battle stars.

Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth Pittenger Koschel; two sons, Elmo
Clayton Koschel of Mobile, Ala., and George August Koschel; a daughter,
Gretchen Alston of Evergreen, Colo.; two stepdaughters, Shirley Wagner of
Raleigh, N.C., and Sharon Mirick of Columbus, Ohio; a sister, Elzada Koschel
Yates; and 10 grandchildren.

Visitation will be today from 6 to 9 p.m. at Schoen Funeral Home, 1414 S.
Tyler St., Covington. A Mass will be said Monday at 11 a.m. at Mary Queen of
Peace Catholic Church, 1501 W. Causeway Approach, Mandeville. Burial will be
in Pinecrest Memorial Gardens Cemetery.