Obituary: Bruno Schmid

Bruno Schmid, 84, died Tuesday, Aug. 18, at Health Central Park.

He was born March 25, 1931, in Stoetten, Bavaria, Germany, to Alois Schmid and Luise Weider Schmid. 

He immigrated in the 1960s to Canada and then to the United States. He married Christine Schaefer, who was also German, in Indiana and moved to Orlando in the 1970s.

He was a retired auto mechanic and was known as Mr. Volkswagen and Mr. Foreign Car Mechanic for the area.

His family includes children, Sylvia and David; grandchildren, Katrina and Brian; one great-grandchild; and two brothers.

Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, at Winter Oak Funeral Home & Cremations. Mr. Schmid will be cremated.