Alfred Carl Scheer

Alfred Carl Scheer died on Monday, December 28, 2015. He was born on the family farm in Knox County, Nebraska on February 1, 1926 to Werner and Mabel (Jensen) Scheer. During WWII he was in the US Army Corps of Engineers, and installed anti-submarine fences in the San Francisco bay.



He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Iowa State University in 1948, and a Masters degree in 1950. He taught at the South Dakota School of Mines, and then moved to Bozeman and taught Civil Engineering at Montana State College/University until he retired.



He was a lifelong sportsman, catching wily trout and feeding his family venison and elk. He saw humor in the world around him, and sometimes interrupted himself with uncontrollable laughter while telling jokes; he was a fan of Stan Lynde's Rick O'Shay and Hipshot Percussion. He loved to garden, some years cultivating an acre of vegetables. He grew grapes, plums, and apples and made wine. In his younger years he made charcoal and chalk landscape drawings.



He is survived by his wife of 68 ½ years, Marcella (Caltvedt) Scheer; sister Joan Krapf of Hobart, Tasmania, daughters Karen Gray, Moscow, ID and Janet Savage (Neil), Scotts Bluff, Nebraska; sons and daughters-in-law Gary and Karen (Kradolfer), Pullman, WA and Joe and Carol (Ford) Puyallup, WA; and son Timothy of Bozeman; plus many grandchildren, great-grand children, and a great-great grandson.



He was preceded in death by his parents; brother James; sisters Ruth Zindel, Vera Borcher, and Anna Bowling; and grandson Nicholas Scheer.



A celebration of his life will be held this spring in Bozeman.



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