Published: July 01, 2009 02:44 pm      

Victor L. “Vic” Shuman

Victor L. “Vic” Shuman, 89; retired captian, New Albany Fire Department

Funeral services for Victor L. “Vic” Shuman, 89, of New Albany, will be at 1 p.m. Friday, July 3, at Seabrook Dieckmann & Naville Funeral Homes, Market Street Chapel, with internment in Fairview Cemetery, New Albany. He died Tuesday, June 30, 2009, at Floyd Memorial Hospital and Health Services.

He was a retired captain of the New Albany Fire Department, a retired realtor and charter member of the Southern Indiana Realtors Association. He was a partner of the former Shuman-Wolfe Realtors and a broker salesman with Bauer Blake Biery Realtors. He was a combat infantry lieutenant of World War II where he was decorated with two Purple Hearts and three Bronze Star Medals during his service in Europe. A life member and officer of Hobart Beach Post 1693 Veterans of Foreign Wars and was commander of the Post Color Guard and a life member of Bonnie Sloan Post 28 American Legion. He was a member and vice-president of the Indiana Firefighters Association of Indiana as well as secretary-treasurer of the New Albany chapter of that organization and was trustee of the New Albany Firemen’s Pension Fund. He was a member and vice president of New Albany Toastmasters 410, member Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels and a member of the National Rifle Association. He received the Hobart Beach Post 1693 outstanding Citizen Award in 1977 for service to the community. In 1999 he was awarded a plaque of appreciation by the Indiana Firefighters Association for his more than 50 years of loyal service as a member and officer. A member of Centenary United Methodist Church in New Albany where he was married in 1942, he also served as lay leader and Sunday School Teacher.

Survivors include his wife, the former Mildred Barksdale; two daughters, Judith A. Johnson and husband, Ted, of Punta Gorda, Fla. and Janet L. Shuman, of Midland, Mich.; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to Disabled American Veterans, P.O. Box 14301, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45250-0301.