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<div>A longtime member of the Houston Peace News team has passed
away. Lee Loe is checking with Carl's church to determine
if there is a scholarship fund for his fifteen year old son and
if so how the peace and justice community can contribute. </div>
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<div>This is from the Houston Chronicle:</div>
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<blockquote>CARL HENRY SCHAER, 55, of Houston, died of cancer on
October 15, 2009. The son of Henry and the late Sue Mallicote Schaer,
he was born in Houston on October 23, 1953. He is survived by his
wife, Elizabeth "Liz" Hausmann Schaer; son, Aaron; father,
Henry; sister, Nancy Camina and husband Willie; and numerous other
family.A graduate of Houston's Waltrip High School, he received his
B.S. degree in physics from Texas A & M University, and a Ph.D. in
theoretical physics from Yale University. He was an accomplished
pianist and received a Master's Degree in Music Composition from Rice
University's Shepherd School of Music. Carl then secured a position
writing computer software for HCSS, a start-up software company for
Heavy Construction, where he was employed until his death.Carl was an
advocate for peace and justice, serving as treasurer of the Houston
Peace News for 15 years. In recent years, Carl and his family loved
volunteering at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. A life-long
Lutheran, he was an active member of Christ The King Lutheran Church.
The family will receive friends and relatives at the Bradshaw-Carter
Home, 1734 W. Alabama, from five until seven o'clock in the evening on
Monday, October 19, 2009. Services will be held at half past three
o'clock in the afternoon on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at Christ The
King Lutheran Church, 2353 Rice Blvd., Houston. In lieu of flowers,
memorials may be made to Christ The King Lutheran Church, The Heifer
Project, or the charity of one's choice. Online tributes may be posted
at www.bradshawcarter.com.</blockquote>
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