Dorothy Niffenegger

DOROTHY NIFFENEGGER

Oxford

Dorothy I. Niffenegger, 87, longtime resident of the Oxford area, died Friday, Feb. 17, 2017.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Oxford United Methodist Church, with a luncheon to follow.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made in her memory to Iowa City Hospice.

To share a memory, thought or condolence, please go to the funeral home website at www.gayandciha.com.

Dorothy Irene Schauf was born April 21,

1929, in Wellman, Iowa, the daughter of Doyle and Goldie (Ellis) Schauf. She was a Wellman High School graduate. She had worked in the area for a number of restaurants over the years the Congress Inn, Lark Supper Club, Highlander, Bill Zuber's and the Ox Yoke Inn, from where she retired a few years ago.

In her younger years, she also was known for her furniture upholstery work. Dorothy had been a longtime member of What Cheer Baptist Church. She loved the outdoors, especially mowing her yard, tending to her flowers and planting trees.

Because of her job as a waitress, she was a natural with people; she loved to take care of the customers. She also enjoyed her friends she would meet up with at the casino, as she was a dear friend to many.

Her family includes her three children, Rusty Niffenegger, Pamela Niffenegger Wagner and Laura Niffenegger; two grandchildren, Molly Niffenegger and Patty Moen; two great-grandchildren, Chloe Moen and Carter Levi Moen; and sisters, Francis Baumert and Lynn Price.

Dorothy was preceded in death by her lifelong partner, Lindle "Fred" Simmons; grandson, Eric Niffenegger; and sisters, Betty Strickler and Rosemary Voss.