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Robina Melvina "Robbie" Schaefer, 74, of Middleton, died
Monday, Jan. 6, 1997, at home. Graveside services will
be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10, 1997, in the Middleton
Cemetery. Pastor Wayne Wakefield will officiate.
Friends are to meet at the cemetery. Arrangements are
under the direction of Accent Funeral Services Home, Meridian.
Robina was born Jan. 17, 1922, in
Laramie, Wyoming, where she was raised and educated,
graduating from Laramie High School in 1939. While
clerking in a bakery, she met Paul Evans, whom she married in
1940. Due to Paul's employment with the Union Pacific
Railroad, the family lived in Cheyenne and Denver, where Paul
was killed in a railroad accident in 1953. Robbie then
moved with their two young daughters to La Porote, Colorado,
where she later met Ray Schaefer at Ranchway Feed Store, where
she was a bookkeeper and where he also worked. They
married on March 18, 1961. In the later '60s, Ray and
Robbie moved to Idaho, locating in Middleton in 1988.
Robbie loved fishing, fly-tying, bowling, crafts and
gardening.
Survivors include her
husband, Ray of Middleton; two daughters, Roselle (Nick)
Benedetto of Nampa, and Cynthia (Jim) Jaderquist of Orange,
California; 3 grandchildren, Larry, Shontele, and Suzanne; 5
great-grandchildren, Kristopher, Krystin, and Kordeiro, and
Jordan and Darien; 3 siblings, Robert K. LaMar, Betty Jean
Forsche, and Mary Rodeman.
Besides her
parents, two sisters preceded her in death.
Casketbearers will be Larry and Kristophor Hout, Ken Tanons,
Mike and Jacob Crosley, and Louie Brasil. |
