Jacqueline L. Treadwell

Jacqueline L. Treadwell, age 101, died Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at N.S.B. Assisted Living Facility, New Smyrna Beach, FL. Born in Portland, Oregon to John and Beulah Gregory Hale, Jacqueline attended business school after graduation from Broadway High School in Seattle, where she grew up, and afterwards was employed at a company that produced material for the US Army's gas masks.

She then enlisted in the US Navy as a WAVE in April 1944 and was sent to Cedar Falls, Iowa for boot camp as well as Hunter College in New York City. From there she received orders to the Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia where she met her first husband, C.W. "Dutch" Schultz, Jr, who was a Naval officer. They married in 1946 and afterwards she was granted her discharge from the Navy to begin life as wife and eventually mother to 3 children. After her husband passed away in 1968, she re-married in 1970 and re-located to Oak Hill, FL with her two youngest sons, both still in high school. Her new husband, H.E. "Butch" Treadwell, whom she met through mutual friends in Norfolk, was a widower and officer in the U.S. Coast Guard and an active member in many civic organizations in the SE Volusia area. In 1993, they sold their home in Oak Hill and re-located to Tymber Trace, in New Smyrna Beach.

Jacqueline was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Smyrna Yacht Club, Past President Blue Gavel Auxiliary, life member New Smyrna Beach Elks Ladies; Chair, Marvin Harvey Scholarship Committee, and the historian at Smyrna Yacht Club for several years.

Survivors include her sons, Walter A. Schultz, Paul C. Schultz, and Barry J. Schultz; step son, Kenneth A. Treadwell; step daughter, Barbara Ann Lowe; 5 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Jacqueline was preceded in death by her husband Horace E. Treadwell.

Funeral service will be 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 17, 2024 at Settle-Wilder Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Sea Pines Memorial Gardens, Edgewater. Friends will be received on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 from Noon to 1:00 p.m. at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations to the Southeast Volusia Humane Society (https://sevhumanesociety.org), 1200 S. Glencoe Rd, New Smyrna Beach - 386-428-9860.

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