Stanley Schuster, Jr.

Stanley E. Schuster, Jr, entered into the presence of his Lord and Savior on May 7th, 2025, completing a life characterized by honor and service to his family, community and country.

Stanley was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1940, the only child of Stanley and Jeanette Schuster. He grew up in Westchester and Kingston, New York, and went on to earn both a bachelor’s and master’s of electrical engineering from New York University. After college, he served as an Army Communications Officer in Vietnam before marrying the love of his life, Ruth Morgan, in Colombia, South America, where Ruth’s parents spent their lives as missionaries.

In 1965, Stanley joined the IBM Research Division of the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, where his distinguished career continued for more than 40 years. Stanley became an IEEE Fellow and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

Even with all his professional accolades, his greatest accomplishments in life were as husband, father, grandfather, friend and neighbor. In 1968, Stanley and Ruth moved to Granite Springs, NY, where they would raise their three sons and become an integral part of the community until Ruth’s passing in 2021. While in Granite Springs, Stan played softball on a neighborhood team, played tennis and ran with friends from work, attended “The Early Bird” 6:00 am Bible study in the neighborhood, and served as an elder at Community Bible Church. Stanley and Ruth were also heavily involved with Neighborhood Bible Studies (now Q Place), and together they led groups for couples in their neighborhood and for young men recovering from addiction at Phoenix House in Westchester County.

As a father, Stanley coached baseball and soccer, learned to ski with his sons, attended father-son excursions at a Christian wilderness camp, retained ping-pong dominance for most of his life, and went running—competing to be the first back to the house–until he was well into his 50s.

Doctors have suggested that his very active life may have delayed by as much as 15 years his 2008 diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. Over the next 17 years, those who loved him watched him fight a courageous battle against an unyielding adversary, a result of his exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam. Despite his advancing condition, his good humor and godly character would emerge, especially when surrounded by his cherished grandchildren. Stanley’s faith is what gives us hope and Stanley’s ultimate victory: “But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Stanley is survived by his three sons, their wives and 11 grandchildren who loved him dearly: Keith and Suzanne (Matthew, Tommy and Jennifer), Mark and Leslie (John, Katherine, Mae and Claire), and Dwight and Nancy (Audrey, Sonya, Megan and Faith).

Though an only child, Stanley is also mourned by his loving in-laws, Helen Tielmann, Grace Morillo, Lois and Samuel Bechtle, and each of their families.