Barbara “Jean” (Merrill) Schultz (age 85) of Cassopolis, Michigan, stepped into the presence of her Lord and Savior on May 25, 2025. The Bible verse she highlighted during her last days, her “wow” verse, was Psalm 73:23-24 “Yet I am always with you, you hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your council and afterward you will take me to glory.”

Jean was born in Jackson, Michigan, on May 30, 1939 to Margaret Delores (Futrell) Merrill and Ray Shannon Merrill. She attended Jackson High School and Eastern Michigan College. In 1957, she took a summer job as a secretary in the Edsel Division of the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, where she fell in love with a first year mechanical engineer, Max Schultz.

Jean and Max were married in February of 1958, and raised their two childre

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