Charles "Chip" William Schild

On July 8th, Charles W. Schild of East Dennis MA, known as Chip to most people, passed through the veil of death to be with his Lord Jesus the Christ in a new world of “what was, what is and what is to come”. He was the loving husband of Lou Ellen Schild (Carlson) who was his soul mate for more than 65 years. He loved his children; daughter Kathryn Stone (husband Geoff) of Mount Holly VT and son Steven Schild (deceased) of Chittenden VT; and his sister, Leonora Brown (deceased; husband Charles) of North Aurora IL. Chip was born in 1935 in Villa Park IL to loving parents Charles and Eleanor Schild and had a great childhood growing up in the prairies of Illinois.

A few years after graduation from York Community High School in Elmhurst IL, he met Lou, the love of his life, and they were married in 1957. He then continued his education with night and summer courses at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Michigan State University and McHenry County College (where he later became a part time instructor in the Business and English Departments). His full-time work began out of high school at the Continental Can Co. in Chicago IL as a laboratory helper. He changed companies after 3 years, moving to the American Can Co. research laboratory in Barrington IL, as a lab technician, and along with his continuing education as a Packaging Engineer, he steadily moved up the technical and managerial ladder. He shifted from the research laboratory to the technical service division and was transferred to the technical group in Union New Jersey in 1976. After a company merger to become the American National Can Co., he became Manager of the company’s Technical Service Dept. providing technical service to customers and can manufacturing plants in the Eastern US. He is author of many publications and holder of several patents, the most widely used is the plastic pull strip of the easy open frozen orange juice container. Following retirement to Cape Cod, after 45 years in the can business, he consulted for another 15 years in the aerosol container field.

He was a 10-year member of the Army National Guard of Illinois, from the Korean Conflict to the end of the Berlin Crisis, with his last assignment serving as Platoon Sgt. His active participation in the Lutheran Church aided him to become a Hospital Chaplain at Cape Cod Hospital, where he volunteered for 20 years. His interests, apart from family, church, and work, were an ongoing study of theology, golf, fishing, and boating. A celebration of his life will be held at the First Lutheran Church in West Barnstable, MA, on July 25th at 10:00 AM. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to First Lutheran Church, Cape Cod Hospital, or the Housing Assistance Corp. of Hyannis MA.