08/29/2005

Notification of Death - Ollie L. Schafer

August 27, 2005

Ollie L. Schafer, 98, died Saturday, Aug. 27, 2005 in Heartland of Marietta.

She was born March 22, 1907, at Lower Salem, the daughter of the late Marcellas T. Doan and Mary L. Doan. She had spent most of her life in the Lower Salem and Harriettsville area and was a graduate of Salem-Liberty High School where she was quite an outstanding basketball player. She later worked at Marietta College and in addition to being a homemaker was a cook at Harriettsville High School. She enjoyed playing cards, quilting and butchering at her daughter's home, and . most of all . playing dominoes at the nursing home. She also loved flowers and her friends and neighbors and . most of all . her special friend, Wilma Van Fossen, who checked on her every day.

On Aug. 20, 1927, she was married to James S. Schafer, who preceded her in death on Jan. 27, 1967. She is survived by three daughters, Betty J. Smith and her husband, Sam, of Newport, Faye E. Forshey of Caldwell, and Hazel H. Smithberger and her husband, Edgar, of Lower Salem; one son, William N. "Bill" Schafer and his wife, Blanche, of Tucson, Ariz.; 20 grandchildren; 50 great-grandchildren; 17 great-great-grandchildren; three stepgreat-grandchildren; and five stepgreat-great-granchildren. She is also survived by two sisters, Ethel Anders of Marietta and Gertrude Eastman of Richwood, Ohio; and several nephews and nieces.

In addition to her husband and her parents, she was preceded in death by five brothers, Charles, Fred, Moses, Walter, and Raymond Doan; three sisters, Martha, Lydia, and Bertha; one son-in-law, Dean Forshey; and one great-grandchild, Michael Smithberger.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at McClure-Schafer-Lankford Funeral Home with Pastor Florence Beranger officiating. Interment will follow in Salem Township Cemetery.

Friends may call from 6 p.m. today until the hour of the service. The family will be present to meet friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today and 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday.