Daughter of Harvey Leroy Keefer b. Dec 30, 1892 in Sunbury, Northumberland Co., PA and Katherine Irene Reed b. June 18, 1893 Henredon, Northumberland Co., PA.
Obituary, Tacoma News Tribune
Geraldine Rebecca Schwarz
Died May 2, 2001 of complications of old age at Tacoma Lutheran Home. She was born July 17, 1917 in Sunbury, Pennsylvania to Harvey Leroy Keefer and Katherine Reed Keefer. She was raised in Appalachian poverty by her mother, earning a scholarship to Columbia University Presbyterian Hospital Nursing School from which she graduated in 1937. She was a head nurse at Columbia until it formed the Second General Hospital at the outbreak of American involvement in WWII. She served with that unit at Oxford, England, taking care of 8th Air Force crews until the invasion. She was badly injured in an ambulance accident in Normandy. Rather than return to the United States, she rejoined her unit in eastern France and served with them until the end of the war. She married Virgil Arthur Schwarz, one of her wounded soldiers, and moved to Tacoma with him in 1946, working in several doctor's offices as a nurse until her children came. He eventually founded and was CEO of Schwarz, Shera and Associates, an insurance brokerage firm now known as Raleigh, Schwarz and Powell. her efforts were always focused on her 5 children and, related to that, volunteered at St. Patrick's School and Bellarmine High School. A social highlight was sharing a state dinner in the Ford White House with her no longer young lieutenant "Bud".
Her brother, George Keefer, died in Burma, and her husband predeceased her in 1990. Survivors include her daughter, Geraldine K. Schwarz of Seattle; sons Robert G. Schwarz of Forest Lake, MN; James A. Schwarz, M.D. of Portland, OR: William M. Schwarz of Tacoma; and Thomas P. Schwarz, currently of Fort Worth, TX. All of whom thank the staff at Weatherly and Lutheran Home, who assisted her for the past several years.
A Rosary will be held at Gaffney's funeral home chapel, 1002 South Yakima Avenue, Friday, May y4, 2001 at 7 PM. Funeral Mass at St. Patrick's Church, Saturday, May 5, 2001 at 11:00 AM. Interment at Calvary Cemetery. Remembrances may be made to the V.A. Schwarz Memorial Fund at Bellarmine High School. Arrangements by Gaffney Cassedy Allen and Buckley King Funeral Home.
Obituary, Tacoma News Tribune
Geraldine Rebecca Schwarz
Died May 2, 2001 of complications of old age at Tacoma Lutheran Home. She was born July 17, 1917 in Sunbury, Pennsylvania to Harvey Leroy Keefer and Katherine Reed Keefer. She was raised in Appalachian poverty by her mother, earning a scholarship to Columbia University Presbyterian Hospital Nursing School from which she graduated in 1937. She was a head nurse at Columbia until it formed the Second General Hospital at the outbreak of American involvement in WWII. She served with that unit at Oxford, England, taking care of 8th Air Force crews until the invasion. She was badly injured in an ambulance accident in Normandy. Rather than return to the United States, she rejoined her unit in eastern France and served with them until the end of the war. She married Virgil Arthur Schwarz, one of her wounded soldiers, and moved to Tacoma with him in 1946, working in several doctor's offices as a nurse until her children came. He eventually founded and was CEO of Schwarz, Shera and Associates, an insurance brokerage firm now known as Raleigh, Schwarz and Powell. her efforts were always focused on her 5 children and, related to that, volunteered at St. Patrick's School and Bellarmine High School. A social highlight was sharing a state dinner in the Ford White House with her no longer young lieutenant "Bud".
Her brother, George Keefer, died in Burma, and her husband predeceased her in 1990. Survivors include her daughter, Geraldine K. Schwarz of Seattle; sons Robert G. Schwarz of Forest Lake, MN; James A. Schwarz, M.D. of Portland, OR: William M. Schwarz of Tacoma; and Thomas P. Schwarz, currently of Fort Worth, TX. All of whom thank the staff at Weatherly and Lutheran Home, who assisted her for the past several years.
A Rosary will be held at Gaffney's funeral home chapel, 1002 South Yakima Avenue, Friday, May y4, 2001 at 7 PM. Funeral Mass at St. Patrick's Church, Saturday, May 5, 2001 at 11:00 AM. Interment at Calvary Cemetery. Remembrances may be made to the V.A. Schwarz Memorial Fund at Bellarmine High School. Arrangements by Gaffney Cassedy Allen and Buckley King Funeral Home.
Daughter of Harvey Leroy Keefer b. Dec 30, 1892 in Sunbury, Northumberland Co., PA and Katherine Irene Reed b. June 18, 1893 Henredon, Northumberland Co., PA.
Obituary, Tacoma News Tribune
Geraldine Rebecca Schwarz
Died May 2, 2001 of complications of old age at Tacoma Lutheran Home. She was born July 17, 1917 in Sunbury, Pennsylvania to Harvey Leroy Keefer and Katherine Reed Keefer. She was raised in Appalachian poverty by her mother, earning a scholarship to Columbia University Presbyterian Hospital Nursing School from which she graduated in 1937. She was a head nurse at Columbia until it formed the Second General Hospital at the outbreak of American involvement in WWII. She served with that unit at Oxford, England, taking care of 8th Air Force crews until the invasion. She was badly injured in an ambulance accident in Normandy. Rather than return to the United States, she rejoined her unit in eastern France and served with them until the end of the war. She married Virgil Arthur Schwarz, one of her wounded soldiers, and moved to Tacoma with him in 1946, working in several doctor's offices as a nurse until her children came. He eventually founded and was CEO of Schwarz, Shera and Associates, an insurance brokerage firm now known as Raleigh, Schwarz and Powell. her efforts were always focused on her 5 children and, related to that, volunteered at St. Patrick's School and Bellarmine High School. A social highlight was sharing a state dinner in the Ford White House with her no longer young lieutenant "Bud".
Her brother, George Keefer, died in Burma, and her husband predeceased her in 1990. Survivors include her daughter, Geraldine K. Schwarz of Seattle; sons Robert G. Schwarz of Forest Lake, MN; James A. Schwarz, M.D. of Portland, OR: William M. Schwarz of Tacoma; and Thomas P. Schwarz, currently of Fort Worth, TX. All of whom thank the staff at Weatherly and Lutheran Home, who assisted her for the past several years.
A Rosary will be held at Gaffney's funeral home chapel, 1002 South Yakima Avenue, Friday, May y4, 2001 at 7 PM. Funeral Mass at St. Patrick's Church, Saturday, May 5, 2001 at 11:00 AM. Interment at Calvary Cemetery. Remembrances may be made to the V.A. Schwarz Memorial Fund at Bellarmine High School. Arrangements by Gaffney Cassedy Allen and Buckley King Funeral Home.
Obituary, Tacoma News Tribune
Geraldine Rebecca Schwarz
Died May 2, 2001 of complications of old age at Tacoma Lutheran Home. She was born July 17, 1917 in Sunbury, Pennsylvania to Harvey Leroy Keefer and Katherine Reed Keefer. She was raised in Appalachian poverty by her mother, earning a scholarship to Columbia University Presbyterian Hospital Nursing School from which she graduated in 1937. She was a head nurse at Columbia until it formed the Second General Hospital at the outbreak of American involvement in WWII. She served with that unit at Oxford, England, taking care of 8th Air Force crews until the invasion. She was badly injured in an ambulance accident in Normandy. Rather than return to the United States, she rejoined her unit in eastern France and served with them until the end of the war. She married Virgil Arthur Schwarz, one of her wounded soldiers, and moved to Tacoma with him in 1946, working in several doctor's offices as a nurse until her children came. He eventually founded and was CEO of Schwarz, Shera and Associates, an insurance brokerage firm now known as Raleigh, Schwarz and Powell. her efforts were always focused on her 5 children and, related to that, volunteered at St. Patrick's School and Bellarmine High School. A social highlight was sharing a state dinner in the Ford White House with her no longer young lieutenant "Bud".
Her brother, George Keefer, died in Burma, and her husband predeceased her in 1990. Survivors include her daughter, Geraldine K. Schwarz of Seattle; sons Robert G. Schwarz of Forest Lake, MN; James A. Schwarz, M.D. of Portland, OR: William M. Schwarz of Tacoma; and Thomas P. Schwarz, currently of Fort Worth, TX. All of whom thank the staff at Weatherly and Lutheran Home, who assisted her for the past several years.
A Rosary will be held at Gaffney's funeral home chapel, 1002 South Yakima Avenue, Friday, May y4, 2001 at 7 PM. Funeral Mass at St. Patrick's Church, Saturday, May 5, 2001 at 11:00 AM. Interment at Calvary Cemetery. Remembrances may be made to the V.A. Schwarz Memorial Fund at Bellarmine High School. Arrangements by Gaffney Cassedy Allen and Buckley King Funeral Home.
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