Mrs. Paul Schneider; Mrs. John Shotwell

2 obituaries: 1st printed June 24, 2008 in the Pilot-Tribune, Blair, Nebraska; 2nd printed June 24, 2008 in the Omaha World-Herald. The W-H one is much shorter and has no additional information.

E. Maxine Shotwell

E. Maxine Shotwell, 79, of Blair, died Monday, June 23, 2008, at Memorial Community Hospital in Blair.

Memorial services will be 2 p.m. Thursday, June 26, at First United Methodist Church in Blair. There will be no visitation.

Evelyn Maxine Shotwell was born Jan. 19, 1929, in Washington County to Jesse and Anna (Nelson) Davis of Herman.

In February of 1947, she married Paul R. Schneider; they had three children. She was a housewife and worked many years at Anderson’s Pharmacy. Mr. Schneider died in May of 1984.

On Jan. 19, 1985, she married John Shotwell. Mrs. Shotwell helped her husband at the Blair Glass Company until it was sold in 1990. She spent many hours as a volunteer in the hospital thrift store until health stopped her. Then she baked for the MCH Auxiliary rummage sale for many years. (Note: Memorial Community Hospital) Her past years were spent volunteering for the Washington County Recycling Association, where she baked goodies for the volunteers.

She is survived by her husband, John; two daughters, Millie Conner of Tekamah and Karen Andreasen of Blair; a son and daughter-in-law, Ron and Kristi Schneider of Wichita, Kan.; 10 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; three sisters, Madeline Carlson of Blair, Billie (Mrs. Howard) Cook of Kennard and Nina Phalen of Lyons; a brother, Jessie “Bud” Davis of Shippensburg, Penn.

In addition to her first husband, she was preceded in death by three brothers, Charles, Howard and Alan Davis; and a sister, Dorothy Tranmer.

Memorials are suggested to the First United Methodist Church Building Fund.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~