Linda Diane Schafer

Linda Diane Orr Schafer died May 21, 2011, at the age of 64.

She was born October 11, 1946 in a log cabin in the mountains of Cascade, Idaho, delivered and placed into the arms of her mother, Jerry, by her father, Jack, when the doctor didn’t make it up the snow-covered incline in time. A year later, on their way west to “somewhere with more of a summer”, they found themselves with a flat tire and few dollars in their pocket stranded in Moses Lake. They never left.

In 1965 she met and married Richard Schafer. The couple, unable to conceive, adopted a son, Kyle, in August of 1969. Two weeks lat...