(From the Columbus Dispatch 3/21/1935)

SCHOEDINGER RITES WILL BE FRIDAY.
NOTED FUNERAL DIRECTOR SUCCUMBS TO HEART ATTACK.
Funeral services for Ferdinand P. Schoedinger, aged 54, well-known Columbus funeral
director and active in Masonic Circles, who died at his home, 57 Parkwood Avenue,
Wednesday night will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, in St. John’s Evangelical and Reform-
ed  Church of which he was a member.  Dr. Frank H. Throop, pastor of Central Presby-
terian Church will officiate.  Mr. Schoedinger, whose death followed a week’s illness
from heart disease, was a member of the firm of Schoedinger & Co. with which he had
been associated for 30 years.    He was a graduate of Ohio State University, was a 
Thirty-third degree Mason, a post potentate of Aladdin Temple of the Shrine, a past 
president of the National Funeral Directors Association, and a past president of the 
Columbus Athletic Club.  Mr. Schoedinger was a member  of the board of directors of
the Player’s Club, a member of the Columbus Country Club, Rotary Club, Junia Lodge
of Odd Fellows and Faculty Club. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Florence Peters 
Schoedinger; a daughter Miss Ann Schoedinger; son, Ferdinand P. Schoedinger, Jr; bro-
ther George R. Schoedinger and one sister Miss Helen Schoedinger.  He was a son of
the late George J. and Anna A. Schoedinger.  Burial will be in Green Lawn Cemetery.
The body will be at the residence until the funeral.