This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Colby, Perrine, Schmitt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wQJ.2ACEB/704 Message Board Post: Lois E. Schmitt Nov. 9, 1912 – May 15, 2005 OLIVIA -- Lois Emeline Schmitt, 92, of Olivia, formerly of Fairmont, died Sunday at the Renville County Hospital in Olivia. The service will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Lakeview Funeral Home in Fairmont. Burial will be at Lakeside Cemetery in Fairmont. Visitation will be for one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Memorials preferred to the Fairmont United Methodist Church UMW or the Lakeview Methodist Home Foundation. She was born Nov. 9, 1912, in Delavan to Bert L. and Sarah (Haynes) Colby. She attended schools in Delavan and Blue Earth. She graduated from high school in 1931. She married R. H. “Mike” Perrine on July 15, 1934. He died in October of 1970. She worked as a kindergarten aide in Isle, then as supervisor of students at St. Cloud University. She married the Rev. Albert Schmitt in St. Cloud. She moved to Duluth and worked as a cashier at St. Luke’s Hospital. They moved to Fairmont and she worked as an admissions clerk at Fairmont Community Hospital. She retired in 1976. She moved to Olivia in 2004. She was a member of the United Methodist Church and was a Sunday School teacher and Women’s Society president active in other church organizations. She was a member of the Eastern Star. She is survived by her sons: the Rev. Byron (and Cheryl) Perrine of Olivia, Dan (and the Rev. Pam) Perrine of Lexington, Ky.; stepdaughter: Ruth (and Dick) Flannelly of Arlington, Va.; nine grandchildren; and many great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husbands; son: Michael Perrine; daughter-in-law: Jean Perrine; one sister and four brothers.