Lavaun T. Schneider

Lavaun Schneider, 77 of Sioux City passed quietly on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 after a seven year battle with Alzheimer's at Sunrise Nursing Home. A funeral mass will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, September 26, 2014 at Immaculate Conception Church with the Very Rev. Armand Bertrand officiating. Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. till service time on Friday at the church. Following the service, her body will be cremated and burial of her cremains will be at a later date in the Calvary Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. She was born the daughter to Matthew and Susan (Brandt) Kleinschmidt on December 31, 1936 in Yankton, South Dakota. She grew up in the states of Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa. After graduation, while living and working in Yankton, she met Paul Schneider before he entered into the service. She was working in Sioux City upon his return from his two years of service. They married on November 6, 1958 at St. Boniface Church in Sioux City. Lavaun was a homemaker who loved to sew, bake and do word searches. Her greatest pleasure was being a second mother to the many children she cared for until her health forced her to stop. She kept in touch with as many as she could when grew up and left the area. Left to mourn her is her husband of almost 56 years. Their children son Allen and his wife Jean, daughter Joan Schneider, son James and his wife Ann, daughter Cynthia and her special friend Lee Weikel. She will also be remembered by 7 grandchildren Mike and his wife Angie Schnetzer, Amber Schnetzer, Aaron and Brian Schneider, Kari Stender, Andrew and Brittany Weikel and one great granddaughter, a sister Margaret Foote and sister in law Delores Kleinschmidt. She was preceded in death by her parents, a sister Donna Fox, a brother Matthew Kleinschmidt II, and a sister Mary Kleinschmidt. She will be missed by many.