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Steve Eldon Schafer

Male 1952 - 2017  (65 years)


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  1. 1.  Steve Eldon Schafer was born on 2 Feb 1952 in Ohio (son of Eldon Schafer and Mary Louise Bair); died on 18 Sep 2017 in Bluffton, Allen County, Ohio; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio.

    Notes:

    Steven "Steve"Schafer, age 65, of Mt. Cory went to be with Jesus at 6:15am on Monday, Sept.18, 2017, at the Mennonite Home in Bluffton. At 6:37am this daily devotional popped up on Dianne's phone: James 1:12 - Blessed is the man who is patient under trial and stands up under temptation, for when he has stood the test and been approved, he will receive (the victor's) crown of life which God has promised to those who love Him. This had been a sad illness for Steve to bear, but God has been with him to the end. Steve loved Farming. He was in the "Top 10 Producers Club" of Tomatoes for over 20 years for Campbell's Soup. He was the largest producer of Red Beets & Parsley for V-8 Juice for many years. With the help of his father-in-law (Gordon Dukes) Steve built his own Parsley Harvester (there were none in existence at that time). For over 35 years the Schafer Farm produced potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, red beets, parsley, strawberries, melons and asst. truck patch vegetables for area groceries and canneries. One of Steve's favorite times was when Kroger asked him if he had any BIG pumpkins? They needed 10. He surprised them with 10 pumpkins that had to be loaded with a forklift. Each over 5' in diameter combined weight over a ton. Kroger was in shock... but the display brought people from miles to see the BIG pumpkins so they were happy to get them. Steve easily adapted to new challenges as agriculture in Northwest Ohio changed. Steve started a business called Schafer Drivelines. He repaired broken drive shafts. His business was immediately busy. Steve and Dianne worked in the farm fields together. At the end of each harvest Steve would surprise Dianne with another tool for her woodworking shop. Everything needed to build small furniture items and crafts. Steve, Schane, Andy along with neighbors combined crafts to do area street fairs. As the vegetable farming in NW Ohio was dwindling - God was providing a new occupation for Steve - today known as The Granary Gifts and Furniture. Steve was a pioneer in the promotion of Amish Furniture in the late 1980s thru current day. Young men would watch for his small handicapped school bus that he drove around Holmes County. They would flag him down and want to build furniture for him. Steve spent over 30 years every Wednesday visiting his friends picking up furniture. Steve was glad when The Granary could serve the community by raising $20,000 for Hancock County Flood Victims, Support WTLW Christian Ministry, Woman's Resource Center HC, Hope House, City Mission and many families, schools, and organizations with a need. Steve's life has been surrounded in work but he still was able to fit in watching his sons, Schane and Andy over the years in sports, following Schafer Brothers Sheep to area fairs, and Findlay Area YFC Children of the Light activities. However his greatest joy were his four grandchildren, Willie, Addi, AJ, and Aleah. It was thought that Steve only worked at The Granary on Saturdays so he could tell people about his grandchildren. Steve, son of Eldon W. and Mary Louise (Bair) Schafer Clayton was born February 2, 1952. Mary and her husband, James survive and live in Findlay. On June 19, 1971, he married Dianne S. Dukes and she survives. Other survivors are his sons: Schane E. of Carey and Andy (Amy) of Columbus Grove; grandchildren: William "Willie", Addison, AJ, and Aleah; brother-in-law: Chris Dukes of Dubai and sister-in-law: Julie (Mark) Flores of Naperville, Illinois. Steve graduated in 1970 from Cory Rawson High School and always remembers being part of the 1968 State Championship Football Team. He was a past member of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jenera and Powell Memorial in Findlay. He was currently a member of Good Shepherd UMC in Benton Ridge where he served as a trustee and various servant teams. He had been a Union Township Trustee for many years. Visitation will be held from 1-4 and 6-8pm on Sunday, September 24, 2017 at the COLDREN-CRATES FUNERAL HOME in Findlay. Funeral services will be held at 11:00am on Monday at the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church Benton Ridge. Pastors Kimberly Reese and Richard Hiltabran will officiate. Interment will follow at Clymer Cemetery in Union Township. Memorials may be given to CG Connect, a new youth house designed to hold leadership, youth and family ministries in the Columbus Grove Community. Online condolences are welcomed at www.coldrencrates.com


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Eldon Schafer was born on 3 Jun 1918 in Hancock County, Ohio (son of William Washington Schafer and Luta Gertrude Pilcher); died on 11 Apr 1984 in Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio.

    Other Events:

    • Occupation: farmer
    • Census: 1950, Union Township, Hancock County, Ohio

    Notes:

    Schafer, Eldon W., 65, of Mt. Cory, Oh. and winter resident of Fort Myers, funeral services Tuesday in Jenera, Oh., arrangements by Coldren-Crates Funeral Home, Findlay, Oh.
    News-Press, Fort Myers, Florida. Sunday, 15 April 1984.


    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/165665975/eldon-waldo-schafer

    Eldon married Mary Louise Bair. Mary was born on 22 Jun 1921 in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio; died on 23 Aug 2018 in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Mary Louise Bair was born on 22 Jun 1921 in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio; died on 23 Aug 2018 in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio.

    Notes:

    Mary L. (Bair) Schafer Clayton, age 97, of Findlay, went to be with Jesus, at 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 23, 2018 at the Taylor House in Findlay.

    She was born as the only child to Harry E. and Bernice (Powell) Bair in Findlay, Ohio on January 22, 1921.

    Mary had been a member Trinity EUB Church in Mt. Cory, St. Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jenera and currently of the First Lutheran Church in Findlay where she was a member of the Martha Circle. She earned her Bachelors Degree and later her Masters Degree from Bowling Green State University in 1969. She retired as a teacher having taught at Vaughnsville, Arlington, and Findlay High School and at Bluffton University. She and her husband, Eldon Schafer owned and operated the Lima Avenue Produce from 1973 to 1984. She was proud to have obtained her solo pilots license. She was instrumental in returning competitive girls basketball to Hancock County in the 1960s. She played on the county championship team at Liberty in 1938, the year before a state-level decision to discontinue interscholastic girls basketball because the games were too strenuous for the girls health. Twenty years later teaching physical education at Arlington, she organized informal games with nearby schools. Attitudes toward competition were changing and, after she began teaching (1961) at Findlay High, varsity games were scheduled against college as well as high school opponents. The Findlay team she coached for five years lost only one game, to then-Bluffton College where she became a health and physical education instructor and women’s basketball, volleyball and tennis coach in 1967. She retired from teaching in 1974 and, two years later, began playing competitive shuffleboard with her husband Eldon Schafer in North Fort Myers, Fla., until his death in 1984. In 1990, she married Jim Clayton and they became active in national and international level shuffleboard, serving as team captains for seven years on the U.S.A. team. They were inducted into the Shuffleboard Association Hall of Fame in 2001. They were elected to the International and Ohio Shuffleboard Halls of Fame in 2007. Mary was inducted into the Hancock Sports Hall of Fame on April 12, 2014.

    Mary’s husband Eldon Schafer preceded her in death on April 11, 1984, she married James Clayton in 1990 and he survives in Findlay. On September 18, 2017 she was preceded in death by her son: Steven E. Schafer. Also surviving are her daughter-in-law: Dianne S. (Dukes) Schafer of Mt. Cory; grandsons: Schane E. Schafer of Carey; and Andy (Amy) Schafer of Columbus Grove; great-grandchildren: William “Willie” Schafer, Addison Grace Schafer, A.J. Schafer, and Aleah Schafer; stepsons: John (Pam) Clayton, of Sellersburg, Indiana; and Michael (Pam) Clayton of Louisville, Kentucky; stepdaughter: Sharon Clayton; step grandchildren: Jennifer LaGrange, Jonathan Clayton, Hope Clayton Pardieu, and Erin Clayton; step-great-grandchildren: Matthew Smith, Mason LaGrange, Mackenzie Clayton, Jaden Clayton, A.J. Clayton and David Clayton. She has a stepson, James Clayton Jr. that preceded her in death.

    Visitation will be held on Wednesday, August 29, 2018 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at COLDREN-CRATES FUNERAL HOME in Findlay.

    The funeral service will begin at the conclusion of the visitation at 1:00 p.m. Pastor Bob Cochran will officiate and interment will follow at Clymer Cemetery.

    Memorials may be given to First Lutheran Church in her memory. Online condolences are welcomed at www.coldrencrates.com


    Name:
    daughter of Harry E. Bair and Bernice Fay Powell

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192544575/mary-louise-schafer-clayton

    Children:
    1. 1. Steve Eldon Schafer was born on 2 Feb 1952 in Ohio; died on 18 Sep 2017 in Bluffton, Allen County, Ohio; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  William Washington SchaferWilliam Washington Schafer was born on 17 Dec 1869 in Putnam County, Ohio (son of William Schafer and Mary Morris); died on 10 Mar 1948; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio.

    Other Events:

    • Occupation: farmer
    • Census: 1910, Greensburg Township, Putnam County, Ohio
    • Census: 1940, Union Township, Hancock County, Ohio

    Notes:

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99665830/william-washington-schafer

    William married Luta Gertrude Pilcher on 4 Oct 1894 in Putnam County, Ohio. Luta was born on 15 Mar 1875 in Rawson, Hancock County, Ohio; died on 29 Mar 1955 in Rawson, Hancock County, Ohio; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Luta Gertrude Pilcher was born on 15 Mar 1875 in Rawson, Hancock County, Ohio; died on 29 Mar 1955 in Rawson, Hancock County, Ohio; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio.

    Notes:

    Mrs. Luta Schafer

    BLUFFTON - Services for Mrs. Luta Schafer, 80, of here, will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the Diller Funeral Home. Elders Robert Schockley and Ivan Hindall will officiate. Burial will be in Clymer Cemetery.

    Mrs. Schafer, the widow of William W. Schafer who died in 1948, died at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday of complications in the home of a daughter, Mrs. Blanche Habegger, Rawson.

    She was a member of the Eagle Creek Primitive Baptist Church.

    Survivors include four other daughters, Mrs. Nellie Conoway, Findlay; Mrs. Carrie Winover, Leipsic; Mrs. Lavina Eck, Leipsic; Mrs. Frances Harris, Fayette; two sons, Glenn, Ada, and Eldon, Mount Cory; a sister, Mrs. Clara Beemer, Columbus Grove, a brother, Ed Pilcher, Toledo, 15 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

    The body will remain in the funeral home where friends may call.

    (published in The Lima News, Wednesday, March 30, 1955, page 2)


    Name:
    daughter of William Pilcher and Mary Ann Wingate

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82157256/luta-gertrude-schafer

    Children:
    1. Clarence Frederick Schafer was born on 21 Aug 1895 in Defiance County, Ohio; died on 12 Jan 1951 in Hancock County, Ohio; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio.
    2. Nellie Schafer was born on 14 Jun 1897 in Highland Township, Defiance County, Ohio; died on 30 Dec 1970 in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio.
    3. Gladys Caroline Schafer was born on 17 Jan 1899 in Highland, Defiance County, Ohio; died on 1 Jul 1978 in Continental, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio.
    4. Lavina Schafer was born on 24 Apr 1901 in Putnam County, Ohio; died on 14 Jul 1970 in Fostoria, Seneca County, Ohio; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio.
    5. William Glenn Schafer was born on 5 Feb 1904 in Highland Township, Defiance County, Ohio; died on 27 Dec 1991 in Ada, Hardin County, Ohio; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio.
    6. Blanche Schafer was born on 19 May 1906 in Putnam County, Ohio; died on 27 Apr 1984 in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio.
    7. Frances Mary Schafer was born on 24 Sep 1909 in Greensburg, Putnam County, Ohio; died in Dec 1983; was buried in Ottawa Hills Memorial Park, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio.
    8. 2. Eldon Schafer was born on 3 Jun 1918 in Hancock County, Ohio; died on 11 Apr 1984 in Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  William SchaferWilliam Schafer was born on 04 Feb 1839 in Darmstadt, Germany (son of Philip Schafer and Mary E. Almanritter); died on 01 Jan 1903 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.

    Other Events:

    • Occupation: farmer
    • Residence: Schafer farm, Palmer Township, Putnam County, northwest corner of section 7
    • Emigration: 1854
    • Census: 1870, Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio
    • Census: 1880, Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio
    • Census: 1900, Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio

    Notes:

    William came from Germany at the age of 14. note on back of xeroxed family photo

    Their land was heavily timbered, so "they cleared and drained the land and made a very productive farm of it. William Schafer held an elected township or county office almost from the date of his residence in that part of the county. The village of North Creek which was platted in 1879, was partly located on his farm."
    this note is from:http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:678927&id=I0631

    Occupation:
    He has been justice of the peace of this township for fourteen years; he is one of the present county commissioners, which office he has filled since 1875, and is the postmaster of North Creek.

    Residence:
    1880 - 133 acres
    1895 - 113 acres

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81040818/william-schafer

    William married Mary Morris on 06 Aug 1863 in Allen County, Ohio. Mary (daughter of Henry Morris and Margaret Weaver) was born on 05 Aug 1845 in Near Columbus Grove, Allen County, Ohio; died on 10 Oct 1902 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Mary MorrisMary Morris was born on 05 Aug 1845 in Near Columbus Grove, Allen County, Ohio (daughter of Henry Morris and Margaret Weaver); died on 10 Oct 1902 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.

    Notes:

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81040819/mary-schafer

    Children:
    1. Phyllis Schafer
    2. Henry Philip Schafer was born on 11 Sep 1864 in Ohio; died on 22 Jun 1941 in McComb, Hancock County, Ohio; was buried in North Mount Zion Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
    3. John Sylvester Schafer was born in 1866 in Ohio; died on 13 Apr 1926 in Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
    4. Margaret Schafer was born on 19 Sep 1867 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 25 Jan 1950 in Escanaba, Delta County, Michigan; was buried in Gardens of Rest Cemetery, Wells, Delta County, Michigan.
    5. 4. William Washington Schafer was born on 17 Dec 1869 in Putnam County, Ohio; died on 10 Mar 1948; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio.
    6. George Lewis Schafer was born on 12 Dec 1871 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 26 Feb 1954 in Kenton, Hardin County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
    7. Charles Clifford Schafer was born on 26 Sep 1874 in Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 7 Jun 1943 in Henry County, Ohio; was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Napoleon, Henry County, Ohio.
    8. Sarah Schafer was born on 22 Aug 1876 in Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 27 Oct 1940 in Silver Lake, Kosciusko County, Indiana; was buried on 29 Oct 1940 in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, North Manchester, Wabash County, Indiana.
    9. Mary Emaline Schafer was born on 15 Aug 1878 in Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 31 Mar 1951 in Lima, Allen County, Ohio; was buried in Sugar Ridge Cemetery, Leipsic, Putnam County, Ohio.
    10. Ida Levina Schafer was born on 19 Aug 1880 in Putnam County, Ohio; died on 26 Oct 1955 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
    11. Benjamin Franklin Schafer was born on 11 Aug 1882 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 07 Mar 1942 in Leipsic, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
    12. Laura Schafer was born on 13 Jul 1884 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 01 Sep 1903 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
    13. Joseph Jefferson Schafer was born on 19 May 1887 in Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 10 Sep 1949 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; was buried in Willow Cemetery, Oregon, Lucas County, Ohio.


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