Frank Scherschel, Photographer For Life Magazine, Is Dead at 74
Published: May 25, 1981
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Frank J. Scherschel, a staff photographer for Life magazine who covered
World War II in Europe, including the liberation of Paris, and in the
Pacific, died Saturday in St. Mary's Hospital in Madison, Wis. Mr.
Scherschel, a resident of Baraboo, Wis., was 74 years old.
He was a news photographer for The Milwaukee Journal from 1926 to l942
before joining Life.
In 1950, he received the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award for excellence,
presented by the National Press Photgraphers Association.
In 1962, Mr. Scherschel was in charge of the photographic laboratory for
the United States Information Agency in Washington. He retired in 1972 and
opened a camera store in Baraboo.
He is survived by his wife, Jean, of Baraboo; a daughter, also Jean, of
McLane, Va., and two brothers, George of Cary, Ill., and Joseph of Flint
Hill, Va.