Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Eleonore E. Schaefer

Sept. 30, 1919 - March 15, 1996

 

South Bend Tribune 3/16/1996

MISHAWAKA - Services for Eleonore E. Schaefer, 76, of 55315 Cedar Trail, who died at 4:15 a.m. Friday in her residence after an illness, will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Chapel Hill Funeral Home, Osceola. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Joseph County.

 

Mrs. Schaefer was a retired cafeteria worker for P-H-M School Corp. She was born Sept. 30, 1919, in Hannover, Germany, and lived here for 44 years.

 

On Nov. 16, 1952, in South Bend, she married William Schaefer. He died in 1982. Surviving are a daughter, Barbara Kelley of Gallatin, Tenn.; two sons, William Jr. of Portage, and Richard of Mishawaka; 10 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and three sisters, Anne Marie Menzen, Franzeska Stockmann and Ursela Stadermann, all of Hannover. A daughter preceded her in death. She was a member of Memorial Presbyterian Church, South Bend.

 

South Bend Tribune 3/17/1997

MISHAWAKA - Services for Eleanore E. Schaefer, 76, of 55315 Cedar Trail, who died at 4:15 a.m. Friday in her home after an illness, will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Chapel Hill Funeral Home, Osceola. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Joseph County.