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Obituary for Robert Schultz

Robert  Schultz
Robert Francis Schultz, 63, of Wallington, N.J., passed away on April 20, 2016. Visiting will be on Thursday April 28th from 4-7pm with a prayer service beginning at 6pm. Cremation will be private.

"Barney," as he was affectionately known, was born in Morristown, N.J., on May 13, 1952, to parents Francis Nicholas Schultz and Mary Fumosa (later Caggiano). Barney graduated from Our Lady of the Valley High School in 1970 and received a BA in History from Upsala College 1974. He moved to California and married Emily Emiko Inouye in 1978. Later that same year, they celebrated the birth of their only child, Nicholas Yutaka. Over the next 30 years, the family lived in San Francisco, Donner Lake, Los Angeles, and Torrance. Barney moved back to New Jersey in 2009 to help care for his elderly mother while providing for his wife back home.


Sports were a great passion for Barney, from the fields of Colgate Park in West Orange to the baseball fields and gymnasiums of Our Lady of the Valley High School in Orange — where he captained the basketball team to a state championship in 1970 — and Upsala College in East Orange. He continued to play basketball recreationally well into his 50s. Barney was also an avid outdoorsman, pursuing his passion to camp, hike, fish, and ski throughout his whole life. At age 58, he achieved one of his dreams by hiking to the top of Mount Whitney, the highest summit in the contiguous United States.


Barney is survived by his wife, Emily, of Los Angeles; brother, Chuck, of New York City; sister, Susan Zidziunias, of West Orange; son, Nicholas, of Costa Mesa, Calif.; and two grandchildren, Jackson Ichiro (4) and Luke Tamotsu (4 months). The family requests any donations be made to Footsteps for the Exceptional Child, care of the West Orange New Jersey Recreation Department, in his name.

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