LAWRENCE A. SCHOTT

Funeral service for Lawrence A. Schott of Detroit, Mich., was held June 11 at St. Scholastica Church in Detroit, with burial in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Southfield, Mich.

R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Home in Livonia, Mich., was in charge of arrangements.

Schott, 84, died Wednesday, June 8, 1994, at Botsford Hospital in Farmington Hills, Mich.

He was born in Dallas, Texas. He and the former Edith Mary Compas had been married 58 years.

Schott attended high school at Benton. He moved to the Detroit area in 1941 from Cape Girardeau.

He was owner of Master Gage in Detroit; Carbex, Schott and Sutton in Clawson, Mich., and since 1959 owned Master Carbide Co. with a son, Roger, in Redford, Mich.

Schott held more than 30 patents, supplied gages to the government during World War II, and pioneered diamond wheel grinding of tungston carbide.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Heather Montalbano of Camino, Calif., Betty Stephens of New Fairfield, Conn.; three sons, Larry, Roger and Mike Schott, all of Michigan; two brothers, Edgar Schott of Benton, Hugo Schott of Copperas Cove, Texas; 15 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.