Theodore Henry Edward Oehlert was called to Heaven to live with his Savior on August 19 after several years of battling cancer. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on December 15, 1946, to Erwin Oehlert and Frieda Luebke Oehlert. He was baptized as an infant and confirmed in his Christian faith at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in St. Louis where he also attended elementary school.

In 1965, he graduated from O’Fallon Technical High School in St. Louis where he studied radio and television repair and was a teaching assistant for the Manpower Development night classes. He attended Florissant Valley Community College, University of Missouri at Rolla, and University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He moved to the Lincoln, Nebraska, area in 1970 and remained there ever since. He worked for Stephenson School supply and 43 years for the Lincoln, Nebraska, Public Schools as an Electronics Technician. He served on the Lincoln Public Schools Safety Committee for a number of years.

Ted enjoyed working with anything electronic or mechanical and enjoyed fixing things that were declared “unfixable”. He was interested in many areas of science, math, and technology and was gifted with a brilliant mind. He had a pilot’s license and took his parents on their first airplane ride, and took his brother up on another ride. He enjoyed talking about having the opportunity to fly a B-52 bomber and attending the fly-ins at Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother-in-law Carl Lilienkamp. He is survived by his brother Daniel (Diana) Oehlert and his sister Darlene Lilienkamp, several nieces, nephews, grand nieces and nephews, and cousins

Memorial Services will be Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 5315 South 162nd Street, Wallton, NE. Memorials in care of the family in Ted’s memory. Condolences may be left at trumpmemorials.com.  Trump Funeral Services, 1600 West “O” Street, Lincoln.