(31 July 1882 – November 1967)
Group 7
Marguerite Derlis Schulze was born in 1882 in France, the child of Joseph Derlis of Avignon. Her father had overseen the Telephone and Telegraph in Avignon, although she had not worked as a telephone operator prior to joining the US Signal Corps. She attended Avignon College in France. When she immigrated to the US in May of 1905, Marguerite was employed as a governess.
She worked for three years in the household of Mrs. O. G. Jones and later managed the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house at the University of Chicago.
When she enlisted in March of 1918, Marguerite placed her nine-year-old son, Paul Derlis, in the Holy Family Academy convent at Beaverville, Illinois so that she could serve. His father, Gustave Weyer, had been dead for many years. As part of the Seventh Group, Marguerite did not deploy to France, as their ship was set to sail when the Armistice was signed. Following her discharge, she returned to Chicago and worked as a milliner.
In the summer of 1934, she married Robert Schulze, a police officer. She gained two step-children through this marriage and likely became a full-time homemaker following this marriage.
Marguerite Derlis Schulze died in November of 1967 and is buried at St. Adalbert Catholic Cemetery in Niles, Illinois.
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