Madelyn F. Schaefer

Madelyn Frieda Schaefer, age 98, of Beecher, Illinois, died peacefully on January 10th, 2022. She was born in Chicago on November 14, 1923, and was a graduate of Pullman Tech High School. She was the youngest daughter of William and Frieda Middelborn.

Madelyn is survived by her two children, Michael (Mari) Schaefer, and John (Carrie Lynn) Schaefer, and niece Karen (Bill) Dusing family.

For 59 years Madelyn shared an incredible loving relationship with her late husband, Michael Schaefer Sr., who she always called "Schaf." They got married in 1945 during Schaf's WWII service in the Navy. Once Schaf was out of the service, they moved to Roseland where she worked at Marshall Field's in downtown Chicago. After a few years they moved to Riverdale, Illinois where Madelyn originally grew up. She started a family and later went back to work for the Cook County State Attorney's office and then with the Secretary States office. After retiring, Madelyn and her husband moved to Ford Lake in Ludington, Michigan and then split time between there and Beecher, Illinois.

Madelyn loved to be with family and enjoyed the outdoors taking numerous trips every year to Canada. Joining was her sister Marion (Emil) Madbar, and niece Karen (Bill) Dusing along with other family friends.

Madelyn loved playing cards, gardening, & fish frys. She was an active member at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Dolton, Illinois and then at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Beecher, Illinois.