Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Alma R. Schindler ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Alma R. Schindler
LAST NAME: Schindler FIRST NAME: Alma MIDDLE NAME: R. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Litchfield AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: Jan 1870 DIED: 9 May 1964 BURIED: 11 May 1964
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
Name of father George P. Litchfield
Maiden name of mother Mary A. Craft
1880 OR CENSUS - Alma R. Litchfield, age 10, b. Oregon, is enumerated with Geo. P. Litchfield, age 39, b. Connecticut, (both parents b. Connecticut), occupation retail grocer, and his wife Mary A., age 38, b. Oregon (both parents b. Pennsylvania), along with Chas. L., age 12, b. Oregon,  Frank P., age 8, b. Oregon, Cora G., age 5, b. Oregon, and Geor F., age 3, b. Oregon, and also Rebecca Craft, age 71, identified as mother [of Mary], widow, b. Pennsylvania. Also enumerated is a servant, Tillie Johnson, age 16, b. Wisconsin.
MARRIAGE - "Joseph Schindler, over 21 & Elma Litchfield, over 18, m 2 Nov 1892 at house of & by C.R. Kellerman, M. G.  Aff: William Frost.  Wit: Flora K. Watt & Ella Kellerman. #4346 pg 227".
1900 OR CENSUS - Alma R. Schindler, age 30, mother of 2 children, b. Jan 1870 in Oregon, is enumerated with her husband of 7 years, Joseph Schindler, age 38, occupation blacksmith, b. Aug 1861 in Germany, year of immigration 1879,  along with Ralph, age 6, b. Apr 1894 in Oregon, and Alice, age 3, b. May 1897 in Oregon.
OBITUARY: 
ALMA LITCHFIELD SCHINDLER 
At the residence , 1625 Center NE, May 9, at the age of 94 years. Survived by son, Ralph, Corvallis; daughter, Mrs. Alice Henson, Portland; granddaughter, Mrs. Bob Carpenter, Salem; sisters, Mrs. Thomas Holman, Miss Helen Litchfield, Mrs. Gertrude Scott, all of Salem. Services will be Mon. May 11, 3 p.m. in the Methodist Home Chapel. Interment Salem Pioneer Cemetery. Under direction of W. T. Rigdon Funeral Home. 
Oregon Statesman, May 11, 1964, 12:7
INSCRIPTION: 
Alma R. Shindler 
1870 -1964 

[shares marker with Joseph]
SOURCES: 
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., East Salem Pct., FA #211)
Marriage Record of Marion County Oregon, 1891-1894, Vol. VII, pg 19 
1900 OR CENSUS  (Marion Co., Prospect, ED 127, sheet 5B)
OS, May 11, 1964, 12:8
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 082 SPACE: 3 NW LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: