WALTER SCHOELLKOPF III

WALTER HORTON SCHOELLKOPF, III  
Walter Horton "Shelly" Schoellkopf III, age 72 passed away peacefully at his home in Basalt, Colorado on July 25, 2017. He was the eldest son of Walter Horton Jr. and Eleanor Flood Schoellkopf. He was born March 13, 1945 in Beirut, Lebanon where his father was an officer in the US Foreign Service. When his parents moved to Washington, DC, he attended Beauvoir School and graduated from Saint Albans School in 1963. He also attended Saint Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He built hot rods in his grandmother's garage with his car club, The Monarchs. He was an early master of the electric guitar and his band The New Breed were well received. He was an expert photographer in the darkroom as well as behind the camera. He combined his love of music and cars by opening the first car stereo store in the Washington area, Auto Fidelity Inc. An avid skier and horseman, he moved in 1975 to Colorado, where he was often seen driving his horse-drawn sleigh through Aspen. He is survived by a sister, Anna Schoellkopf Lacher of Aiken, South Carolina; a brother, Henry Flood Schoellkopf of Bethesda, Maryland; two nephews, David Flood Lacher of Aiken, South Carolina and Peter Graham Lacher of Columbia, South Carolina; two great-nephews, Maddox Lacher and Lennox Lacher of Columbia, South Carolina and his long time companion, Nancy Collins. No services planned.