Margaret Elizabeth Stoeber Schumacher 1917 - 2016

STOEBER, SCHUMACHER, HEUERTZ

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/11/2016 at 22:03:03

Sioux City Journal
8 May 2016

SIOUX CITY | Margaret Schumacher, 98, formerly of Sioux City, died on May 5, 2016. She had spent the past six years in Columbus, Ohio.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 14, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, with the Very Rev. Armand J. Bertrand officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m., and a vigil service at 7 p.m., at Meyer Brothers Morningside Chapel.

Margaret Elizabeth Stoeber Schumacher was born Dec. 13, 1917, at home in Remsen, Iowa, to Albert Henry and Elizabeth Kathryn (Heuertz) Stoeber. She graduated from Le Mars (Iowa) High School in 1935. After high school graduation, Margaret worked as a clerk at the candy counter in the B & B dime store in Le Mars. She also worked for Dr. Brucher, a dentist. In Sioux City, she worked at Albertson's for eight years in the payroll department. She also worked for Siouxland Mental Health for 17 years as a bookkeeper.

Margaret married Martin Schumacher in Sioux City on Sept. 15, 1951. She was a member of Catholic Daughters of America and active in her church, Immaculate Conception in Sioux City. She volunteered many years at a hospital in Sioux City, visiting the sick.

She loved to play cards and was involved in many bridge groups. The past five years, Margaret had lived at Crown Pointe Care Center in Columbus, Ohio. Her daughter, JoAnn Schmitt resides in Dublin, Ohio.

Margaret is the second oldest of five siblings, Helen, Margaret, Lorraine, Dorothy and Robert. She is survived by Dorothy Anderson of Meridian, Miss., and Robert Stoeber of Spencer, Iowa. She is also survived by her children, Mary Schumacher (husband Ed Bradford), Jim Schumacher (wife Ellen), JoAnn Schmit (husband Richard) and Mark Schumacher (wife Mary Beth); her grandchildren, Emily, Brian (wife Diane) and Will Bradford, Amy Schuber (husband Dave), Beth Dennert (husband Brian), Mark Schumacher (wife Jordan) and David Schumacher (wife Becky), Matt Schmitt (wife Piya) and Noah Bloom (formerly Rachel) (wife Jessica), Justin Schumacher and Lauren Atchity (husband Vincent); and her great-grandchildren, Oliver and Elliot Atchity, Emma and Micah Dennert.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Albert Henry and Elizabeth (Heuertz) Stoeber; her husband, Martin Schumacher; sisters, Lorraine Steele and Helen Sullivan.