Garold, retired farmer, farmed in Noltimier Township for 52 years. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Schroeder, who settled in Noltimier Township after coming from Germany at a young age. Garold was a Barnes County Commissioner for 20 years, Noltimier 4-H Club Leader for 20 years, Clerk of the Noltimier School Board for 42 years, and in 1975 retired from the Barnes County Welfare Board after serving as a Board Member for 27 years. He has served on the Salem United Methodist Church Board, where he has been a lifetime member.
Wife Catherine is Secretary in Howard Langemo's State Farm Insurance Office. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jens Jensen, who farmed 4 miles east of Nome, North Dakota in Raritan Township. Mr. Jensen lived 79 of his 88 years of life on the Northeast ΒΌ of Section 23-137-56. The last nine years of his life being spent in Valley City, North Dakota. Jens Jensen and Clover Andersen Jensen were married in 1910, and celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary with friends and relatives at an Open House in the Lucca School, which has since been closed. Mr. Jensen was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Niels Jensen, who came from Denmark in 1883 and homesteaded between Lucca and Nome, the same land that was the birthplace of Jens Jensen, the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Jensen, and birthplace of their two children, N. Peter Jensen (now with the John Deere Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota), and Catherine Schroeder.
The Schroeders have three sons and one daughter. Norman Schroeder, manager of one of the Big Bear Grocery Stores, San Diego, California. Charles, Probation Officer with the Dallas Juvenile Department, Dallas, Texas. Mary Lou (Mrs. Donald J. Thoreson) of Crookston, Minnesota; and Donald J. Malec, Valley City, North Dakota. Don is the Partsman at Bay Shore Resort, and his wife Pat is Receptionist in the office of Dr. V. Duane Brown, Chiropractor.
Three generations of this family attended Raritan School - Mr. Jens Jensen, his daughter and son Catherine and Peter, and Catherine's son Donald Malec.
Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 217