Edith M. Schobert

Edith was loving, generous, caring and a little stubborn and she raised her sons the same way. We didn't always get what we wanted but we had what we needed. Our father worked nights and we often didn't see him when school was in session except on weekends. It was my mothers task to give us our marching orders and insure chores were done around the farm. When we needed help she often pitched in to drive the tractor or help with the heavy lifting. She was a real trooper when we kept the roads to the Doctors office warm. When we were pulling weeds in the garden and my brother tried to cut my foot off with a corn knife, she drove me seven miles to the Doctor and waited until the stiches were in before passing out. She attended all the football, basketball, track, and band concerts plus the county fair when we showed for 4H. She lent her hard labor and baking skills to many charities, working for the church at dinners and the county fair stand. She was also a contributing member of the Grange. She baked for various sales for our highschool class activities, for band parents. Later she contributed cash to worthwhile charities such as Disabled American Veterans and Native American schools. She cared for the many animals we had on the farm. We regularly had lambs or a calf being warmed in a box in the bathroom or taking up temporary residence in the basement, and being bottle fed until they could return to the barn. She took one small kitten that had fallen into a pan of oil during winter and washed the oil off, dried it, and fed it with an eyedropper until spring when we adopted it and it became a favorite. We had a litter of pigs which were born outside and were badly chilled. She popped them in the oven on warm and saved everyone of them although the tender ears got a little crisp and they grew up without any ears. We had a large garden and fruit trees plus some wild fruit.. She canned, froze, and made jams and jellies most of the summer. She loved flowers, planting many flats of flowering plants around the house such as four o'clock, phlox, cannas, marigolds and zinnias which complemented the roses, lilacs and flowering trees She was pretty, but every child thinks that. She picked me up at my dorm once and a friend of mine thought I was going out on a date. A couple of friends of mine were going home to Springfield when a policeman pulled her over and asked what dorm she lived in. He thought she was running around town with a carload of boys!. Memorial Service Saturday 11:00 AM at Roeder Mortuary Roeder Mortuary 11710 Standing Stone Gretna, NE 60028 402-332-0090  www.roedermortuary.com ..