Helen J. Schafer

Helen J. Schafer died at the age of 90 on April 15 at Hospice House in Spokane after a short illness.

She was born on June 15, 1922, to Henry and Adelaide Curtin Willson in Everett, Wash. She graduated from Everett High School, and attended business school and Washington State College.

She met and married Ralph G. Schafer in 1943. They moved to the family farm in Ritzville, where she was active in Zion Congregational Church, Past Noble Grands and Grange.

She was known for her Irish heritage, card playing sharpness, avid reading, love of movies, passion for travel, her “green thumb” and love of...