Schafee, Henry/ Schafee, Lucille/Schafee, Walter

SCHAFEE, SCHAVE, LANG

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 6/11/2004 at 09:24:04

 
Memorial card for Henry John Schafee [Schave]

BORN: May 11, 1870, Clayton County, Iowa
DATE OF DEATH: February 10, 1950, Decorah, Iowa
SERVICES FROM: Ossian Lutheran Church, Tuesday, February 14, 1950 at 2:00 p.m.
CLERGYMAN OFFICIATING: The Rev. V. A. Fiskerbeck
FINAL RESTING PLACE: Centennial Cemetery
FUNERAL CONDUCTED BY: Phillip A. Schmitz

Memorial card for Lucille K. S. Schafee [Schave]

Born: November 21, 1896, Clayton County, Iowa
Passed Away: Smith Memorial Hospital, Decorah, Iowa, October 1, 1964
Funeral Service: Lutheran Church, Ossian, Iowa, October 5, 1964, 2:00 O'clock
Burial: Greenwood Cemetery
Clergyman: Rev. A. Duane Manson
Organist: Mrs. Elaine Linderbaum
Soloist: Mrs. Duane Manson
Casket Bearers: Ed Dahms, Glen Schafee [Schave], Howard Hanson, Clarence Schafee [Schave], Harold MacIntosh, Raymond Schafee [Schave].

Walter Schave was born February 26, 1894, Winneshiek county, Iowa. Walter died November 3, 1915.

From the pages of my mother's obituary collection scrapbook.

Henry John Schafee Obituary (Id-542138) submitted by Reid Johnson on Feb. 14, 2015:

La Crosse Tribune, La Crosse, Wis., Wed., 15 Feb. 1950.

Decorah- Funeral services for Henry John Schafee, 79, who died Friday, Feb. 10, at his farm home near Decorah, were to be held Wednesday at the Ossian Lutheran church, the Rev. V. A. Fiskerbeck officiating burial to be in the Centennial cemetery.

He was born May 11, 1870, in Clayton county, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schafee. He married the former Anna Lang February 23, 1893, in Ossian, and the couple engaged in farming near Lime Springs and later near Postville before buying the farm on which he died.

He is survived by his wife; a son, Leo; a daughter, Lucille; and six brothers, John of Minneapolis, Will and Charles of Castalia, Fred, Waukon, and George, of near Decorah, and Albert, Clermont.