Doris Anna Schaus-Stauffer Obituary (1925

Doris Ann Stauffer, 91, a resident of the Helvetia community and member of Helvetia Community Church passed away peacefully on Monday morning, May 2, 2016 at Cornell Estates Assisted Living in Hillsboro. A short tea service will be held in remembrance at the Helvetia Community Church Fellowship Hall on Saturday, May 21 st at 4PM. Doris was born on January 19, 1925 in Pittston, PA. She was one of three children born to Earl and Hedwig (Anton) Hunt. She was raised in Pittston later spending some timeclose to her grandparents in Brooklyn, NY before attending Pratt Institute of the Artsstudying art andbecoming skilled in commercial package design. She found a job and met her first husband, Carl F. (Fritz) Schaus at General Electric in Bridgeport, CN.They were married on May 27, 1945. They made their home in Upstate New York raising five children and living in Rexford, Hageman, and Charlton.In 1976, they returned to Fritz's ancestral Rexford homestead. Fritzpassed away suddenly in 1989. In 1990 Doris met a long-lost family friend Carlton Stauffer at her high school reunion. The married in 1991 and decided to move back to Charlton, NY. They made their home in Charlton until 2005 when they moved to the Masonic Retirement Village in Elizabethtown, PA. Carlton died in 2010 and it was then that Doris moved to Helvetia, OR to live with her youngest son, Christian and his wife Helen. Doris was a loving, active, and devoted mother to her five children. She was later a volunteer and an advocate for historical properties and preservation in and around Charlton, NY. She and her husband Carl helped establish the historical district boundary and bylaws andorganized the Charlton Historical Society. They restored several old historic town buildings. Dorisloved sewing, music, theatre, dance, cooking, parties, fancy dress, gardening, skiing and spending time with horses. She is preceded in death by husbands Carl Schaus, Carlton Stauffer and by her parents. Survivors include her two sisters; Phyllis Passantino of New York, NY and Suzanne Keats of Leisure Village, NJ andher five children and their spouses; Mari Kaestle of Ajo, AZ, Frederikaand Paul Martin of Tucson, AZ, Lisa Schaus of Kalispell, MT, Carl and Holly Schaus of Charlton, NY, Christian and Helen Schaus of Helvetia, OR, fivegrandchildren and five great grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the Charlton Historical Society, 2009 Maple Avenue, Charlton, NY 12019.