Lavaun T. Schneider 1936 - 2014

SCHNEIDER, BRANDT, KLEINSCHMIDT

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/10/2014 at 20:03:49

Sioux City Journal
25 September 2014

SIOUX CITY | Lavaun T. Schneider of Sioux City passed quietly on Sept. 24, 2014 at Sunrise Retirement Community after a seven-year battle with Alzheimer’s.

Services will be 11 a.m. Friday at Immaculate Conception Church, with the Very Rev. Armand Bertrand officiating. Following the service, her body will be cremated. Burial of her cremains will be at a later date in the Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be 9:30 a.m. until service time Friday at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.

Lavaun, the daughter to Matthew and Susan (Brandt) Kleinschmidt, was born on Dec. 31, 1936, in Yankton, S.D. She grew up in the states of Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa.

After graduation, while living and working in Yankton, S.D., she met Paul Schneider before he entered into the service. She was working in Sioux City upon his return from his two years of service. They married on Nov. 6, 1958, at St. Boniface Church in Sioux City.

Lavaun was a homemaker who loved to sew, bake and do word searches. Her greatest pleasure was being a second mother to the many children she cared for until her health forced her to stop. She kept in touch with as many as she could when they grew up and left the area.

Left to mourn her is her husband of almost 56 years; and their children, Allen and his wife, Jean, Joan Schneider, James and his wife, Ann, and Cynthia and her special friend, Lee Weikel. She will also be remembered by seven grandchildren, Mike and his wife, Angie Schnetzer, Amber Schnetzer, Aaron and Brian Schneider, Kari Stender, Andrew and Brittany Weikel; and one great-granddaughter; a sister, Margaret Foote; and sister-in-law, Delores Kleinschmidt.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Donna Fox; a brother, Matthew Kleinschmidt II; and a sister, Mary Kleinschmidt.

Memorial may be directed to Hospice of Siouxland of the Alzheimer's Association.

She will be missed by many.