Photo courtesy of Coker Funeral Home - Sanger
Sep 19, 1940 - Sep 8, 2025
What a wonderful life John and Janny Jo built together! Prayers to the family during this very difficult time, but such great memories to cherish, along with incredible children and grandchildren to continue on the love.
Robin and Rick McClure
September 15, 2025 | Lantana, TX | Friend
John Schertz, what a great guy! Janny, Jennifer and Mark, you are in our prayers!! Ray, my brother and John had so much fun working on those 'mature' Z cars that they both loved.
Jay & Ann Thompson
September 12, 2025 | Hurst, TX | Friend
While John Hugh was rebuilding car engines
the rest of us were having trouble with Tinker Toys.
Bill Bounds
September 12, 2025 | Sanger, TX | Friend
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John Hugh I always looked up to as a big brother Sending prayers to my sweet cousins on the loss of such a wonderful man, husband, father and grandfather. You will be dearly missed. Fly high my sweet cousin.
Linda Hewlett
September 11, 2025 | Sanger, TX | Family
We are sorry for your loss.
Millard and Nancy Smith
September 10, 2025 | Sanger, TX | Friend
John Hugh Schertz, 84, of North Richland Hills, Texas, passed away September 8, 2025, in Hurst, Texas. Born September 19, 1940, to parents Bennie Lee and Laura Juanell (Fletcher) Schertz in Denton, Texas.
John attended school in Sanger and was a graduate of the SHS Class of 1959. He continued his education and graduated in 1964 from Texas Tech in Lubbock. He joined the ROTC which would later lead him into a military career entering the Air Force as a Captain.
John married the love of his life, Janny Jo Jones, on June 2, 1962, in Sanger, Texas, and together they had two children.
John was a veteran pilot of the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War and served 6 years in active service. He flew a C141A and an OV10 FAC in Vietnam. Additionally, he simultaneously operated five different radio’s reporting and communicating with all military branches while flying at tree level over enemy lines. John continued his pilot career in commercial flight for Eastern, American Eagle, and United Airlines for a total of 27 years.
John is preceded in death by his parents Bennie and Juanell.
Those remaining to cherish his memory are his wife of sixty-three years, Janny of North Richland Hills; one daughter, Jennifer Deon Schertz of Euless; one son, John Mark Schertz and wife Larisa of Georgetown; one brother, Tony Schertz and wife Penny of Lubbock; Three grandchildren, Cody Schertz, Royce Schertz, and Richard Sieloff; and two great-grandchildren, Sloan Schertz and Aubrey Schertz.
A funeral service for John will be held on Saturday, September 13th, 2025, at 10:30 AM, at First United Methodist Church in Sanger, Texas. Chaplain James McCutchen will be officiating. Interment will be at the Sanger Cemetery. Those serving as pallbearers will be Billy Art Bounds, Cody Schertz, Royce Schertz, Richard Schertz, James Teel, and Hank Cooper.
Please offer your condolences to the Schertz family in our online guestbook at www.cokerfuneralhome.com.
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