St. Clair County Obits

JOSEPH DAVID OVERSCHMIDT

Clinton Daily Democrat
30 June 2003
Joseph David Overschmidt was born January 3, 1916, to David and Catherine (Hanneken) Overschmidt in Union. He entered his heavenly home June 8, 2003, at Sac-Osage Hospital in Osceola. Joe D’ was raised and spent most of his early years in Union until moving to Deepwater to live with his daughter. While in Union, he worked for Ford Motor Company for 35 years as a mechanic. He met his one true love, Lillian Brickmann, and married her December 29, 1940. They were divorced in the 1960s. They were blessed with one daughter, JoDean Overschmidt (Landes), born April 20, 1941. Joe D' loved working on cars, mowing lawns and going for car rides. His grandchildren described him as being the best driver's education teacher you could ask for. He often drove from Union to watch his grandchildren play basketball and loved to dance and eat barbecue. He had a real compassion for family and friends, always putting others before himself. He was a member of the Catholic Church in Union until moving to Deepwater where he attended Holy Rosary Church in Clinton, until retiring to Truman Lake Manor in Lowry City. During a hospital stay in April 2002, his daughter and grandson Bill led him to accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior. He was preceded in death by his parents; three sisters, Lorraine Louise Overschmidt, Lazetta Frances (Rose) Overschmidt Boulware and Marie Antonette Overschmidt Monzyk, and his one and only love, Lillian. He is survived by his daughter, JoDean Landes and her husband, Melvin, Deepwater; his sister, Louise Neola Overschmidt Hawkins of Kansas City; four grandchildren, Melvin (Rusty) Landes and his wife Wendy, Lee's summit, Rick Landes and his wife Becky, Aurora, Colorado, Michelle Landes Johnson and her husband John, Lowry City, Bill Landes and his wife Patricia, Lowry city; seven great-grandchildren, Rachel and Megan Landes, Angela Wilson, Amanda and JC Johnson, Matthew and Jennifer Landes; one great-great-grandchild, Jordan Wilson, and numerous nieces and nephews and a host of friends and family. Funeral services were held at Vansant-Mills Chapel on Thursday, June 12, at 1 p.m. with Rev. Danny Fergerson officiating. Pallbearers were Bill Landes, Rusty Landes, Rick Landes, John Johnson, J. C. Johnson and Jim Yates. Burial was in the Teays Chapel Cemetery, Montrose, under the direction of Vansant-Mills Funeral Home of Clinton.