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December 28, 2007
Services
Visitation and a memorial service will be held Thursday, January 10 from 1-3 p.m. at Sunrise Assisted Living, 184 Berdan Avenue in Wayne.
A memorial reception also will be held Friday, January 11 from 1-3 p.m. at the Shelter Harbor Inn in Westerly, Rhode Island.
Interment will be in Oak Grove Cemetery in Ashaway, Rhode Island.
Lucille E. Schafmeister (nee Sweet) age 83 of Charlestown Rhode Island, on Friday, December 28, 2007 at Sunrise Assisted Living, in Wayne, NJ with her daughter at her bedside. Even with her strong and independent nature, she endeared herself to her caregivers, who in turn are greatly saddened by her passing. Her family is most thankful to the staff at Sunrise for the extraordinary care of their mother.
Lucille was born in Providence, Rhode Island, graduated from New Rochelle High School in New York and earned a bachelors degree from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. For many years she lived in Westerly, Rhode Island where she raised her children. She also volunteered at the Westerly Hospital and was the accounting manager for the family business, The Sportsman’s Corner in Charlestown. She also lived in Carlisle and Danville PA, and Albany, NY before returning to Charlestown in the late 1970s.
Lucille also was employed as the office manager for Dr. R. Bruce Gillie in Westerly, RI for 20 years.
She very much enjoyed reading novels, collecting and studying antiques and had traced her lineage as far back as pre-Revolutionary war days. Much of her genealogy work involved researching public records and finding cemetery records and grave markers.
Perhaps the most delightful events in her life were the arrivals of grandchildren whom she loved with all of her heart.
She was the daughter of Howard C. Sweet and Grace Adams Brightman Sweet. She was predeceased by her two brothers Charles and Howard.
Surviving are one son Vincent J. Schafmeister III and his wife Christine of Thouare sur Loire, France; one daughter Linda Heimburg and her husband Bob of Wayne, NJ; three grandchildren Jeffrey and Benjamin of France and Lindsay Heimburg of Wayne, NJ; her sisters-in-law, Jeanne Sweet of Tempe, Arizona and Jan Sweet of Woolgoolga, Australia, and many nieces and nephews and cousins.
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Visitation and a memorial service will be held Thursday, January 10 from 1-3 p.m. at Sunrise Assisted Living, 184 Berdan Avenue in Wayne.
A memorial reception also will be held Friday, January 11 from 1-3 p.m. at the Shelter Harbor Inn in Westerly, Rhode Island.
Interment will be in Oak Grove Cemetery in Ashaway, Rhode Island.
December 28, 2007
Services
Visitation and a memorial service will be held Thursday, January 10 from 1-3 p.m. at Sunrise Assisted Living, 184 Berdan Avenue in Wayne.
A memorial reception also will be held Friday, January 11 from 1-3 p.m. at the Shelter Harbor Inn in Westerly, Rhode Island.
Interment will be in Oak Grove Cemetery in Ashaway, Rhode Island.
Lucille E. Schafmeister (nee Sweet) age 83 of Charlestown Rhode Island, on Friday, December 28, 2007 at Sunrise Assisted Living, in Wayne, NJ with her daughter at her bedside. Even with her strong and independent nature, she endeared herself to her caregivers, who in turn are greatly saddened by her passing. Her family is most thankful to the staff at Sunrise for the extraordinary care of their mother.
Lucille was born in Providence, Rhode Island, graduated from New Rochelle High School in New York and earned a bachelors degree from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. For many years she lived in Westerly, Rhode Island where she raised her children. She also volunteered at the Westerly Hospital and was the accounting manager for the family business, The Sportsman’s Corner in Charlestown. She also lived in Carlisle and Danville PA, and Albany, NY before returning to Charlestown in the late 1970s.
Lucille also was employed as the office manager for Dr. R. Bruce Gillie in Westerly, RI for 20 years.
She very much enjoyed reading novels, collecting and studying antiques and had traced her lineage as far back as pre-Revolutionary war days. Much of her genealogy work involved researching public records and finding cemetery records and grave markers.
Perhaps the most delightful events in her life were the arrivals of grandchildren whom she loved with all of her heart.
She was the daughter of Howard C. Sweet and Grace Adams Brightman Sweet. She was predeceased by her two brothers Charles and Howard.
Surviving are one son Vincent J. Schafmeister III and his wife Christine of Thouare sur Loire, France; one daughter Linda Heimburg and her husband Bob of Wayne, NJ; three grandchildren Jeffrey and Benjamin of France and Lindsay Heimburg of Wayne, NJ; her sisters-in-law, Jeanne Sweet of Tempe, Arizona and Jan Sweet of Woolgoolga, Australia, and many nieces and nephews and cousins.
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