Kern County Obituaries

Louis Buddee Scheu

Submitted by Don Stowell; 13 Feb 2008

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Source Unknown; 28 Oct 1943

Well Known Mining Man Passes On
Death came to Louis Buddee Scheu, aged 58, at Trona Hospital Tuesday 
evening, October 19, at nine o'clock. Mr. Scheu was well known in the Rand 
District as well as in Mojave, having been actively engaged in mining work in 
Randsburg since 1920. A serious illness at New Years, 1942, was followed by 
three major operations during that year at Santa Fe Hospital in Los Angeles and 
in March, 1943, he was released from the hospital to conva1esce at his home in 
Randsburg. For a few months just prior to his death, he had assisted Mrs. Scheu 
in conducting the government aircraft warning post at Sidney Peak. He was 
attended in his final illness by his life-long friend, Dr. Wm. Denton of Trona.

Service Saturday	
Funeral services were held on Saturday afternoon at the Community 
Methodist Church in Randsburg with the Rev. Carrie Elizabeth Ovall in 
charge. Interrment was in the Rand District cemetery at Johannesberg. 
Doughty, Calhoun and O'Meara were the undertakers.	

Busy Career	
A native of Gunnison, Colorado "Bud" Scheu received his education in 
the public schools of that state and attended the Colorado School of Mines
The son of C. H. Scheu, a mining engineer, he spent his early life in Salt Lake 
City, Utah, and moved with his parents to Upland, California. He married in 
1917. Mr. and Mrs. Scheu chose Rand District for their home in 1920.

Pioneer Mill Man
His first task was the installation of milling machinery at the Consolidated 
Mine. Following this assignment he next assisted in the installation of the mill 
at the California Rand, now known as the Kelly Mine at Red Mountain and 
continued with that project through its most active period. He was associated 
with the late Tom Finnerty in the conduct of the King Solomon Mine and lived 
at Johannesburg during that period. With the advent of the Anglo-American 
operation of the Yellow Aster Mine at Randsburg he was employed by that firm 
and continued with them until shortly before the suspension of gold operations. 
He worked with Larry Putnam, superintendent for Castro-Chrome Associates at 
San Luis Obispo, California until his illness became acute. During this later 
period, Mrs. Scheu was Acting Postmaster at Randsburg.
Mrs. Scheu survives her husband as does their daughter, Mrs. Warren L Lane 
of Tyler, Texas.

NOTE:
CADI
Dob 05 Oct 1885, Colo
Dod  19 Oct 1943 San Bernardino County Calif

Wife may have been:
Scheu, Jessie M.
Dob 02 May 1895, Mo.
Dod 05 Jan 1973, Kern County Calif