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Virginia Schmidt

[June 04, 2009]  Virginia M. Schmidt, 77, of Lincoln, formerly of Chestnut, died Wednesday, June 3, 2009, at 6:33 p.m. at her home.

Her funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln. Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. at the funeral home.

Burial will be in Laenna Cemetery, Chestnut.

Mrs. Schmidt was a homemaker and helped her husband with farming.

She was born March 13, 1932, in New Holland to Glen and Leola Crawford Ewers. She married Harold G. Schmidt on Nov. 21, 1954, in New Holland. He preceded her in death on April 13, 2004.

She is survived by two nephews, John M. Ewers and Dennis Kleen, and three nieces, Susan Legreco, Betty Kleen and Karen Kleen.

She was the last of her immediate family and was preceded in death by two sisters, Evelyn Kleen and Cora Russo, and two brothers, John W. Ewers and Robert Ewers.

She was a member of Chestnut United Methodist Church.

Memorials may be made to her church.

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