Longtime Gloucester Firefighter Sander Schultz was remembered in his obituary as someone who “loved helping people and public services” and a “loving and faithful husband and father.”
Schultz, 56, died unexpectedly in Ipswich on March 30. He was a Gloucester firefighter for more than two decades and worked as the department’s EMS coordinator for many years.
Schultz was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Denver, Colorado, where he graduated from Cherry Creek High School, according to his obituary. After graduating, Schultz joined the U.S. Forest Service as a firefighter, and later enlisted in the Coast Guard, where he became a Bosun’s Mate and heavy weather coxswain.
The Coast Guard was where Schultz met his wife, Sara, and they married in 1992. Schultz left the Coast Guard in 1998 and joined the Gloucester Fire Department the same year, the obituary said.
In 2013, Schultz won the Stoke Healthcare Professional Award from the American Stroke Association.
Schultz is survived by his wife, Sara, two sons, Hunter and Tayler Schultz, his father, Robert, his brother, Rob, and his extended family.
His funeral will be held at Our Lady of Good Voyage Church, 142 Prospect Street, Gloucester, on Thursday, April 11, 2024, at 12 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, Schultz’s family asked for donations to Action Inc., a Gloucester-based nonprofit, or to a social services charity.
