- Date Of Birth: June 8, 1917
- Date Of Death: March 30, 2010
- State: Iowa
Marie (Eberl) Schafer passed away March 30, 2010, at the Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa, at the age of 92 years. She was born in Omaha on June 8, 1917, the daughter of Charles and Anne (Formanek) Eberl. Her mother died of pneumonia when Marie was four years old, after which she and her sister Anne moved to Lindsay, Nebraska, to live with their aunt and uncle, Bess and Ed Connelly. At age six her father died of a heart attack. Marie remained in Lindsay with Bess and Ed until graduating from high school in 1935.
After high school she held various jobs in Omaha for a couple of years, including being a nanny for a little girl. She then attended sewing school at the Vogue School of Design in Chicago. After she finished sewing school Marie and her sister Anne had a sewing and dress making shop in Omaha for two years until they both went to the Martin Nebraska Company to work in the war effort.
While at the Martin Nebraska Company, she met Louis Henry Schafer. They married on September 22, 1943. Their marriage was doubly blessed with the birth of twin sons, Robert and Ronald, and then four more sons: Louis Jr., William, Chris and Charles.
