Fred Schritt

Fred Schritt, owner of GI Body Shop for the past 49 years went to meet his maker at the age of 77 on Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at All Faiths Funeral Home. Daniel Naranjo will officiate. Burial of ashes will be in the Grand Island Cemetery. Gathering of friends and family will be for 5-7 p.m. Friday at All Faiths Funeral Home. To honor Fred’s wishes, cremation has taken place. All are encouraged to wear casual dress to the service. Fred was born to Martin Schritt, Sr. and Rose (Stoddard) Schritt on May 24, 1938 in Grand Island. He was the third child of a family of eight. He lived in the east part of Grand Island most of his life. At the age of 14 he went to work for Greens Body Shop as a sweeper. He quit school at the age of 16 where he attended Walnut Junior High School and then began his career as a body man and painter. He was known as one of the best painters in Grand Island and was one of the first people to mix candy apple paints before they were even available several years later. He worked painting cars during the day and painted airplanes at night. He also was one of the first Volkswagen mechanics in Grand Island when the VW bug became a “must have “car. He met and married Susie Martens in July 1954 and to this union he had one daughter, Karen. On May 15, 1993 he met and married Ellen Mundorf and gained three step sons, David, Brad and Greg Mundorf and one step-daughter, Lisa (Mundorf) Olson. Fred built many show cars over his years, taking old rusty bodies and putting tons and tons of lead and sweat into his classic cars. In 1967 he began racing motorcycles, first starting out hill climbing, flat track and scrambles (now pretty much known as motocross). His favorite motorcycles were his 750cc factory Harley Davidson racer and his 750cc Triumphs. He has 31 motorcycles; mostly he built himself ranging from an old Indian that was a rust bucket of a frame, to a three engine 750 cc Triumph that he estimated to run at the Salt Flats at close to 400 miles per hour, although because of heart problems, and the salt flats being flooded he never got the chance to race. He raced all over the country, Del Mar Mile in CA Tulsa, OK, Las Vegas, Sturgis, SD, Norton, KS and numerous places. In 1996 he won the #1 plate for the VDTRA (vintage dirt track racing association) for being the best with the best overall points for the year. He also won the Oklahoma State Championship. He retired at about 70 from racing, continuing to build motorcycles and then he decided to put up an old car that resembled “Mater” in the cars movie and named it the Peppermint Kid. He made a car for the humane society, made a cop car, an airplane with German shooting at Snoopy made from a Volkswagen that he added a tail to, and a witch taxi cab hauling Shrek, the purple people eater car, a car with a wolf and he made a skeleton made out of old scrap to make it look like a skeleton of a German Soldier and one he recently finished and is in the office, a one eyed space guitar player. He was currently working on a minion as his last project that hopefully one of the guys will finish in the future. Fred will be remembered as a talented artist, loved to talk about the “old days” as he was growing up and will live in the hearts of all of his friends, families and everyone he knew. He was also a guardian angel and his favorite charity was the Humane Society as he felt every animal should have a good life, a warm house, food and loving and contributed to the Humane Society to help those animals that couldn’t speak for themselves. Fred is survived by his wife, Ellen; his daughter, Karen (Doug), step-daughter, Lisa (Jimmy) Olson; step-sons, David (Karen) Mundorf, Greg Mundorf and Brad (Sally) Mundorf; granddaughter, Lisa (Jason) Wood and Daniel Muir; great-grandsons, Jordan Muir, DJ Muir, Jeremy Muir, Jace Muir, Skylar Wood, and Ryder Wood; great-granddaughter, Caitlyn Muir; great-great grandchildren, Blake and Alixa Muir; brothers, Harvey (Denise) Schritt, Don “Punk” (Bonnie) Schritt; sister, Joyce Medinger; sisters-in-law, Ellen J. Schritt and June Schritt; brother-in-law, Don Loveland; along with numerous nieces, nephews and extended family and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents; sisters, Betty Stoltenberg, KayLynn Loveland; brothers, Sonny Schritt and Martin Schritt, Jr,; great- grandson, Jaden Muir. Donations are requested to the Central Nebraska Humane Society.

Fred Schritt

May 24, 1938 - January 25, 2016

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May 24, 1938 - January 25, 2016

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