Dorothy I. Niffenegger

NIFFENEGGER, ELLIS, SCHAUF, NIFFENEGGER WAGNER, MOEN, STRICKLER, VOSS, PIERCE, SIMMONS

Posted By: Lisa Ciha (email)
Date: 2/21/2017 at 12:55:57

Dorothy I. Niffenegger, 87, longtime resident of the Oxford area died Friday, February 17, 2017.

Funeral Services will be held at 11am Wednesday at the Oxford United Methodist Church with a luncheon to follow. In lieu of flowers memorial donations can be made in her memory to Iowa City Hospice. To share a memory, thought or condolence please go to the funeral home website @ www.gayandciha.com.

Dorothy Irene Schauf was born April 21, 1929, in Wellman, Iowa the daughter of Doyle and Goldie (Ellis) Schauf. She was a Wellman High School graduate. She has worked in the area for a number of restaurants over the years, The Congress Inn, The Lark Supper Club, Highlander, Bill Zubers and the Ox Yolk Inn where she retired a few years ago. In her younger years she was also known for her furniture upholstery work. Dorothy has been a longtime member of the What Cheer Baptist Church, she loved the outdoors, especially mowing her yard, tending to her flowers and planting trees. Because of her job as a waitress she was a natural with people, she loved to take care of the customers. She also enjoyed her friends she would meet up with at the casino, as she was a dear friend to many.

Her family includes her three children, Rusty Niffenegger, Pamela Niffenegger Wagner, and Laura Niffenegger; two grandchildren, Molly Niffenegger and Patty Moen; two great-grandchildren, Chloe Moen and Carter Levi Moen; sisters, Francis Baumert and Lynn Pierce and brother, Robert Schauf. Dorothy was preceded in death by her lifelong partner, Lindle “Fred” Simmons; grandson, Eric Niffenegger; and sisters, Betty Strickler and Rosemary Voss.

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