Evelyn M. (Johnston) Schaefer

May 31, 1914 - Dec 24, 1968

Evelyn M. Schaefer, 54, of 104 E. Broadway, died at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Memorial Hospital a week's illness.

She was a former society editor of the Hammond Times, and the KenJosha, Wis. News. She also had been employed at the NewsTime in the 1930's. She was born May 31, 1914, in Indianapolis, and had lived here six years coming from Hammond.

She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Gertrude Caughey, of San Francisco and a half-brother, Claude O'- Donnell, of St. Paul.

Services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in the Welsheimer Funeral Home with Rev. Richard Curtis, on pastor of the Cathedral of St. James, officiating. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.

Article from 26 Dec 1968 The South Bend Tribune (South Bend, IN)

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Ex-Social Editor Dies

SOUTH BEND - Evelyn M. Schaefer, 54, former social editor of The Times, died Tuesday. She lived at 104 E. Broadway. She is survived by a sister, Mrs.Gertrude Caughey of San Francisco, and a half-brother, Claude O'Donnell of St. Paul. Services were held today in Welsheimer Funeral Home. The Rev. Richard Curtis of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. James officiated. Burial was in Highland Cemetery, South Bend. Mrs. Schaefer was with The Times from 1948 to 1961. Before that she had been with the South Bend News- Times and the Kenosha, Wis., News.

Article from 27 Dec 1968 The Times (Hammond, IN)

Father: Willis Johnston

Mother: Daisey Davis

Marital Status: Divorced

Sources: Ancestry.com and Newspapers.com

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