It was right to the point.”Įveryone knew her father for his quick wit and loving sarcasm, Verding said. If you did something wrong, there was no political correctness in how he corrected you. He called, like, at 7:15 in the morning.”īut Schwartz could also be a “wisecracker,” Eisinger said. We shared the same birthday, April 20, and we would always try to beat each other calling. “He meant so much to the community,” Eisinger said.
He put 100 percent into everything, and people respected him.” “He knew what was right and wrong, and a lot of people gravitated to him because of that. “He had very strong values, very strong morals, beliefs,” she said. “They just kept voting him in as chief,” said his daughter, Jessie Verding of Red Wing, Minn., who, along with her three brothers, grew up hanging around the fire hall “climbing around the trucks and watching wrestling.” Schwartz, who grew up in Bayport, joined the fire department in 1969 and served 30 years, including more than 20 as chief. (Courtesy of the Schwartz family)Ĭharles Schwartz died Monday at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis of complications related to pancreatic cancer and long-term heart failure. He was an organized person, and he was able to handle the work that he did and handle the home.” Charles Schwartz, who spent 25 years with the Washington County sheriff’s department and 30 years as a volunteer firefighter in Bayport, died June 13, 2016. “We look at it differently today,” said his wife, Susan Schwartz. They didn’t call it “giving back to the community” when Charles “Chuck” Schwartz worked at the Washington County sheriff’s office and served as volunteer chief of the Bayport Fire Department.
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