Norbert A. “Bert” Schlamm, 79, died May 29, 2004, at Whidbey General Hospital, Coupeville. Mr. Schlamm was born Dec. 18, 1924, in San Francisco.

He was educated in San Francisco schools and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1949, he married Nancy A. Noble who died in 1985. In 1987 he married Kathryn R. Noble.

During World War II, Mr. Schlamm served with the 526th Armored Infantry Battalion, landing at Omaha Beach. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and in the liberation of Germany. His battalion was awarded the Bronze Star as a result of their actions.

During the Korean War, Mr. Schlamm was called to active duty and commissioned in the U. S. Navy. Virtually his entire career was spent in Navy medical research units. The Navy maintained research laboratories all over the world at that time, several in the United States, and also in Cairo, Jakarta, Taipei, and for a few years, in Ethiopia.

Mr. Schlamm was stationed in a NAMRU lab in Oakland, Calif., served three years on a laboratory ship based in Hawaii and also served at other labs in Dugway, Utah, and Bethesda, Md. The last three years of his career was with the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery at a desk assignment. He was tasked with searching for officers and civilians with academic degrees in medical fields and with research experience and interest, which could be used for staffing the various labs in the Navy system. Capt. Schlamm retired from the Navy in 1977. Subsequently, he and his wife Nancy moved to Oak Harbor.

Mr. Schlamm is a member of First Reformed Church of Oak Harbor and a member of the Gideons organization.

Bert is lovingly remembered by his wife Kathryn (Kay) of Oak Harbor, daughter Heidi and husband Manfred Franke and five grandchildren of Prague, Czechoslavakia; daughter Lisa and husband Brian Brogden, two granddaughters, and two great-grandchildren of Arlington and Everett; son Eric of Spokane; son William and wife Joyce Noble and two grandchildren of Gaithersburg, Md.; daughter Patricia and husband Brian Whittaker and two grandsons of Ferndale; and daughter Nancy and husband Michael Urban of Long Island, Maine.

Memorial services for Norbert Schlamm will be held Thursday, June 3, at 11 a.m at the First Reformed Church of Oak Harbor with Rev. Jon Brown officiating. Cremation was held with private family inurnment to follow. Memorials may be given to First Reformed Church or the Gideons.