Raymond Leland Schulze, 86, of Dodge, died February 10, 2006, at the Good Samaritan Center in Scribner. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 am. Monday, at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Dodge with Reverend Dennis DeGuzman as celebrant. Burial will be in the St. Wenceslaus Cemetery with military honors graveside. Wake Services will be 7:00 pm. Sunday at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church. Visitation will be 3:00 until 8:00 at the Church. Memorials may be made to Dodge American Legion Post #122, St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, or Dodge Volunteer Fire Department. Those wishing to leave on line condolences may do so at www.stokelyfuneralhome.com. Stokely Funeral Home of Dodge is in charge of arrangements. Raymond was born November 4, 1919 on a farm in Beadle County, South Dakota near Huron to Edmund F. and Myra I. Cates Schulze. He attended grade school in South Dakota before moving to a farm near Rosalie, NE where graduated from high school with the class of 1937. On May 19, 1942 he married Audrey Hanzel. Ray worked as a lathe operator in Omaha before volunteering for the Army Air Corps. The couple moved to California in August of 1942, where he received pilot training at Morton Air Academy and Minter Field. In 1943, Ray was deployed overseas, flying 50 missions in northern Africa and in the Mediterranean, receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross, First Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Air Medal. Ray then worked as a flight instructor in northern Africa, and after returning to the States, in Santa Monica, California. Following the war, he returned with his family to Dodge, where he worked the Hanzel farm for 11 years. In 1957 they moved into Dodge and he worked out of Fremont and West Point as a loan officer for the Federal Land Bank for 28 years retiring in December of 1984. Raymond was a member of St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, Holy Name Society, Knights of Columbus and 40 and 8. He was active in the VFW and American Legion. He had served on the Dodge Fire Department, coached American Legion Baseball and served on the Dist. 46 School Board. Survivors include his wife, Audrey, of Dodge, sons Richard (Peggy) of Chicago, Ill, Tom (Julie) of Clarkson, son-in-law Clarence Ortmeier of Dodge, sister Ethyle Holmes of Omaha, 13 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. He is preceded in death by a daughter LaDonna Ortmeier in August of 2005, brothers Roy, Roland, Lorin and Gerald.