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Cemetery:           Brookside Cemetery
Name:               Robert W. Schleman

Date Of Photograph: August 29, 2012
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Robert W. Schleman
1910-1997


Obituary Courtesy Charlevoix Library Obituaries
Charlevoix Courier

Robert W. Schleman
Robert W. Schleman, 87, of Charlevoix (and formerly of South Bend and Dayton)
died Sept. 6, 1997, at Charlevoix Area Hospital. Graveside service was at 11
a.m. Tuesday. Sept. 9, 11 a.m.. at Brookside Cemetery. The Rev. Philip G.
Schairbaum of the First Congregational Church of Charlevoix officiated.

Mr. Schleman was born March 8, 1910, in Dayton. Ohio, the son of William and
Nellie (Brehm) Schleman.  He was raised in Dayton and graduated from the
Brothers of  Saint Mary's School in Dayton in 1928.

He then graduated from the University of Dayton in 1932 and attended Harvard
University Business School for three years. On June 23. 1934, he married the
former Virginia M. Burden in Dayton and was married for over 63 years.

He owned tool and die shops in South Bond, Evansville, and Fort Wayne, Ind.,
Dayton. Ohio, and Detroit, Mich. In the late 1940s, he founded the Stream-Eze
Co. in Charlevoix, which occupied the Foster Boat Works building. At this
facility. Mr Schleman was the first manufacturer of fiberglass fishing rods and
bows.

Mr. Schleman was a member of the First Congregational Church in Charlevoix.

He is survived by his wife, Virginia M. of Charlevoix; one daughter, Susann and
her husband, John R. Ring, Jr., of Dallas. Texas: two sons, William R. Schleman
of Dayton, Ohio, and Steven E. and his wife, Kelly Schleman, of Toledo, Ohio;
eight grandchildren, one greatgrandchild; one sister, Dorothy, and her husband,
Harman Darrow, of Dayton, Ohio.

Contributions in memory of Robert W. Schleman may be made to the Charlevoix Area
Hospital.



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