Submitted by: Dan Rich

Mabel Schefmeyer

Dec. 17, 1908 - Aug. 4, 1999

South Bend Tribune 8/6/1999

Mabel Schefmeyer, 90, passed away following a brief illness at 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 4, in her apartment at the Milton Home in South Bend, Ind. Before moving to the Milton Home last month, Mrs. Schefmeyer had lived six years at St. Paul's Retirement Center and previously on Greentree Street in South Bend. Prior to that she and her family were lifelong residents of Pearl River, N.Y. On Dec. 17, 1908, Mabel was born to Charles and Estelle (Green) Bell in Pearl River, N.Y. She married her childhood sweetheart, Herbert Schefmeyer, on Aug. 19, 1933, in Pearl River. She was preceded in death by her husband, Herbert; her sister, Hilda MacDonald; and by a brother, Charles Ronald Bell. She was a graduate of Pearl River High School, and worked as the executive assistant to the president of the Shell Oil Company of North America in New York City before leaving to start a family. She is survived by a son, Donald H. (Karen) Schefmeyer; and by a grandson, Alec Schefmeyer, all of South Bend.

Friends and family are invited to a reception in her memory from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 11, in the Summit Club, located on the 25th floor of the former Valley American Bank Building in downtown South Bend. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Joseph County or to the Arthritis Foundation. The Welsheimer Funeral Home is handling arrangements.