Retired Air Force colonel Karl C.J. Schricker died June 15, 2007.

Col. Schricker was born Aug. 8, 1921. He served as a B-24 navigator in the China/ Burma/India theater during World War II.

After retiring from the military, he obtained a master’s degree in business from New York University.

Karl started, owned and operated a successful business, Manuals Corporation of America. He created policy and procedure manuals for large companies such as Kellogg’s, Dow Chemical, banks and other industries. He traveled extensively, giving seminars across the nation as well as in Canada, India and South America. Karl’s business prepared companies to develop their own internal policies and procedures from the models he had written. The business was operated for 25 years from his Long Island, N.Y. home.

Karl had a happy and successful marriage to his first wife Irma Addelman. They had two children, Kristin E. (Col., retired Air Force) and Karl E. Schricker, a commercial airline pilot. Karl has three grandchildren, Roxana, Jason and Claire Schricker.

Following the death of his first wife, Karl married Edna and the couple was happily married 16 years. They resided in Greenbank.

Karl was a kind, generous man and is dearly loved and missed by his family.

A memorial service took place at the family home on June 22.