Individual Details

Death

Louis D. Schafer
Services will be held at 11 a.m. April 11 for
Louis D. Schafer, 63, at Sacred Heart
Catholic Church. The Rev. Fr. Thomas
Braak will officiate. Burial will be in Sacred
Heart Cemetery.
A scripture service will be conducted this
evening (April 10) at Goettsch Funeral
Home in Monticello.
Louis D. Schafer of Monticello died April 8
at John McDonald Hospital, after an extend-
ed illness.
Mr. Schafer was born Sept. 8, 1921, at
Langworthy, the son of George and Emma
Zimmerman Schafer. He received his early
education at Wayne Township School No. 3.
He later farmed with his father.
Louis D. Schafer married Dorothy Laban
on June 18, 1946, in Monticello. The couple
farmed in the Langworthy area, and until
his retirement in 1975 he also worked off the
farm. He was a school bus driver for 10
years and worked for Georgia-Pacific from
1969 to 1975.
Louis was a member of Sacred Heart
Catholic Church in Monticello.
He is survived by his wife; a son, James
Schafer of Fall Brook, Calif.; two
daughters, Sandy Byers of Monticello, and
Carol Adams of Peoria, 111. ; and four grand-
children.
Casketbearers will be Ray Poppe, Robert
Gerdes, Johnnie Pegorick, Bennie
Tobiason, Donald Zimmerman and Don
Purcell. Honorary bearers will be Wayne
Rosencrans, Ralph Harms, Albert Johnson.