Aside from the 1988 SAFE award and the reported aerospace employment, the public record of Schmoll’s later decades remains thin.
No securely identified source currently establishes:
- his residence through the 1970s and 1980s;
- spouse or children;
- employers during particular years;
- formal education;
- military service;
- when he left California;
- when or why he moved to Arkansas;
- retirement date;
- later parachuting activity;
- final jump count;
- cause of death; or
- burial location.
The SSDI-derived material associates him with the Fort Smith, Arkansas area by the time of death, and the genealogical record specifically gives Fort Smith as the place of death.910
An obituary from the Southwest Times Record or another Fort Smith-area publication from approximately February 28 through early March 1999 could potentially resolve many of these questions at once.
References
- 9 Secondary genealogical material records an entry with matching dates, born August 4, 1932 in Colorado and deceased February 27, 1999 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, with parents Louis “Wayne” Schmoll and Nancy Belle Nicholl. Because no primary birth or death certificate has yet been inspected, these family details remain provisional. ↩
- 10 An SSDI-derived memorial record for Harry W. Schmoll gives August 4, 1932–February 27, 1999, age 66, and associates the record with ZIP code 72901 in the Fort Smith, Arkansas area. Because such records can reflect a last residence or benefit address rather than literal place of death, the geographic detail should be treated cautiously. ↩