William Theodore Schattenkerk, 92, passed away at home near Brockway on September 18, 2021. He was born May 14, 1929 in Roseburg, son of H.C. and Lucy (Schulze) Schattenkerk of Brockway. Ted and his brother Al (aka Carel) grew up on the family farm where their parents had a fruit stand on Hwy 42 from 1929 to 1979. Ted went to one-room Brockway School and graduated from Roseburg High in 1947. He worked his way through college, doing horse logging and surveying. He helped neighbor Art Boyer plat out part of the city of Winston in 1949.

Ted did a lot of hiking. He and Al helped drive sheep on foot from Dixonville to the Rogue-Umpqua Divide in 1944. The sheep drive continued on to Ft. Klamath; the boys were taken home so they could go back to school. In 1949, Ted and Al rode the mail boat up the Rogue to Agness, then hiked 10 miles upriver to Mule Creek and overland in hot weather to Twelvemile Creek near Camas Valley. In June, 1950, Ted and a buddy Neil Sheets hiked a southern portion of the Appalachian Trail as far as Hot Spring, NC, about 287 miles. They went off-trail to Maine, seeing sights along the way, and stayed and worked a few months before going home. Ted hiked many trails in Oregon, also.

Ted was drafted and served in the U.S. Army in the Korean War from fall 1950 to fall of 1952. He attended Vanport College, then Southern Oregon College of Education (SOCE) in Ashland in '53-'54, where he met Dorothy Rathkey of Tenmile. They married in Albany. Ted graduated from OSC (now OSU) in 1957 with a B.S. degree in Range and Wildlife Management (School of Agriculture). Between 1955 and 1972, and from the late 1980s to early 2000s, he worked for the US Forest Service and BLM, mostly in Oregon (one year of desert work for BLM in S. California, 1957-'58). In Oregon, Ted and Dorothy and family lived in Corvallis, Albany, Bend, Star Ranger Station on the Upper Applegate River, Klamath Falls, and Pendleton. In 1973, they came home to the family farms at Tenmile and Brockway, and helped their widowed mothers. Ted and Dorothy lived on the Rathkey place at Tenmile, then in the late '80s moved to the Schattenkerk farm at Brockway. Ted worked with the BLM in the 1990s-early 2000s, monitoring amphibians, Spotted owls, and Columbia White tailed deer. He retired in 2009 at age 80 after several years as a freelance botanist.

Ted's life was family, farming, outdoor recreation (hiking, kayaking, camping, hunting), all-day dirt road trips, and traveling. He took his family all over western states including Alaska; also B.C., Yukon, and Baja. Ted went to Holland three times in 1947, 1990, and 2001. In about 2004, he narrated natural history and geology on the Shobu-to-Roseburg Sister City bus tour around Oregon. Then he went to Shobu, Japan in 2005 with the Sister City tour from Roseburg, and saw some sights on his own.

Ted liked taking foreign language classes (including Japanese!), all Native Plant Society of Oregon (NPSO) activities, and finding endemic plants in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness with his friend, geologist Larry Broeker. Ted's favorite car was the Land Rover; he had a 1960 and a 1967 model. He couldn't bear to part with the '67 Rover for 54 years, but finally sold it in 2021 so it could undergo restoration.

Ted is survived by his wife of 66 years, Dorothy, four children Carol (Bob) Gutmann, Ed (Della), Henry, and Amy (Ron) Sutten; 3 grandchildren Mike (Tia) Schattenkerk, Teresa (Patrick) Burcher, and April Flamion; and 4 great-grandchildren. Ted was predeceased by his parents and two brothers Edward William (1928) and Albert Carel (2016).