Robert Schlomann, 38

Robert Schlomann, age 38 of Santa Fe, New Mexico and formerly of Northfield, passed away Sunday, October 14, 2012 at his home in Santa Fe.

Funeral Services will be 7:00 pm Friday, October 19th at the Bierman Funeral Home in Northfield with burial at Mount Hope Cemetery in St. James, Minnesota. Visitation will be Friday from 4-7:00 pm with Services at 7:00.

Robert Harry Schlomann was born February 18, 1974 in Northfield, son of Juliane Lynda Schlomann. He attended school in Northfield and graduated from Northfield Senior High School in 1992. At a young age he began taking guitar lessons and classes in karate which became lifelong passions. When he was 15 he joined a local band and began working part time at the Northfield Tavern.

Following High School he moved to California where he continued with karate and had become a 7th degree black belt and spent summers in Alaska working on a commercial salmon fishing boat out of Fairbanks. In 1997 he moved to Santa Fe and he began working at the Second Street Brewery as a bartender and waiter and is where he was still employed. In addition he taught karate classes out of his own studio.

Music continued to be an important part of his life and he taught himself to play the organ, drums, harmonica, and piccolo often playing and recording music that he wrote. He also enjoyed snow skiing and rock climbing in the mountains of New Mexico. He recently purchased land outside of Santa Fe with his friend Rolland and was in the process of building a new home on this site. Bob Schlomann is survived by his mother Julie Schlomann of Northfield; girlfriend Jennifer Marshall of Santa Fe; and cousins Lynda (Mark) Johnson of St. Louis, MO, Curt Dougherty, Craig Dougherty and Amy Dougherty all of Northfield and many more friends and family.

Arrangements by the Bierman Funeral Home of Northfield.