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Portrait of Janet and Don Schafer
In loving memory

Janet and Don Schafer

May 16, 1947 – January 24, 2022
Lived 74 years
Highland Memorial Cemetary · Miamisburg, Ohio
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Janet Schafer, age 74, a longtime resident of Miamisburg, passed away after a battle with a terminal disease on Monday, January 24, 2022 at Home, surrounded by her family. She was born May 16, 1947 at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Dayton, Ohio to the late Casper and Dorothy (Ping) Goffe.

She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Don Schafer; daughter, Vicki (Schafer) Leeson (Ben); son, Gary Schafer; brother; Don Goffe; grandkids, Ashley (Leeson) Gilroy, Amber Leeson, Alix (Leeson) Wilson (Travis), and Josie Kimbrough; great grandkids, Lexi, Nixon, Presley, Ryder, Maeleigh, Navie, Brecklyn, and Ridge; brothers, Ron (Barbara) Goffe, Jim (Joan) Goffe, and Jerry Allen Goffe; sisters, Marjorie Eloise (Herman) Hill, Wilene (Jerry) Doxey, and Judy Rae Goffe. Plus many neices, nephews, & cousins whom she loved very much!

Janet was a Human Resource Manager at Sears for 35 years. Most of all she enjoyed her time with family.

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1947
Born May 16
1948
Janet was 1 when Truman ordered the armed forces desegregated
1959
Janet was 12 when Barbie made her debut
1969
Janet was 22 when "Sesame Street" debuted
1976
Janet was 29 when America celebrated its Bicentennial
1981
Janet was 34 when MTV began broadcasting
1998
Janet was 51 when Google was founded
2007
Janet was 60 when the first iPhone went on sale
2017
Janet was 70 when "Fortnite" became a video game phenomenon
2021
Janet was 74 when the James Webb Space Telescope was launched
2022
Passed away January 24, age 74
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