Shirley Ann (Thompson) Schumacher

Shirley Ann (Thompson) Schumacher, age 76, of St. Cloud, formerly of Tempe, Arizona, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 at the St. Cloud Hospital.
Friends and family may visit 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19 at the Daniel Funeral Home in St. Cloud, Minnesota. A Mass of Christian Burial is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 at Holy Family Catholic Church in Lincoln, Illinois. Burial will take place in St. Mary’s Cemetery in Lincoln.
Shirley was born on Dec. 5, 1935 in Lincoln, Illinois to Glen Edward and Ann Joan (Maiewski) Thompson. Her family moved to Chicago, where she graduated from Calumet High School in 1953. She met and in 1955 married Edward Rudolph Schumacher of Chicago, and lived in the Burbank/Oak Lawn area until moving with their family to Tempe, Arizona in 1971. Shirley lived there until moving to St. Cloud in 2011.
Her occupations included homemaker and mother; waitress and front desk clerk at the old Harlem Airport; hostess at the Charles Continental Steak House; a legal clerk; and in food service for the Tempe Unified School District. She took great joy in her children, in baking and cooking, and in colorful fashion and decoration.
Survivors include her brother, William Thompson of Chicago; children, Steven of Anaheim, California, Barbara (Merrill) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Richard of San Jose, California, and Lawrence of St. Cloud, Minnesota; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and four nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her father and mother; her sister, Sharon (Scanlon); and her husband.
Funeral arrangements in Lincoln, Illinois are being made through Peasley Funeral Home, 217-732-8141.