This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Schumacher, Stigers, Couture, Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/INB.2ACE/1437 Message Board Post: The News-Times, Newport, OR Sept. 1, 2004 Joseph Schumacher Joseph C. Schumacher, 69, formerly of Depoe Bay, died Aug. 27, 2004, at Village Health Care in Missoula, Mont. He was born Jan. 17, 1935, at Missoula Community Hospital to Eula (Couture) and Tony Schumacher. He was an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe. He was raised and attended school in both Polson and Kalispell, Mont., and graduated from Flathead County High School in Kalispell in 1953. He excelled in art and continued his education in Los Angeles at the Art Center School of Design. He served in the U.S. Army in the late 1950s and spent the majority of his military service in the Special Forces based in Fort Ord, Calif. He married Judy Stigers. They had two children together, and later divorced. He created commercial art for advertising agencies and private clients and later became a full-time artist, creating oil and acrylic paintings and pen and ink drawings, among other media. He made many Native American paintings and his works were exhibited in many galleries throughout the Western United States, including President Nixon's "Western White House" in La Jolla, Calif. He lived in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Depoe Bay, and returned to Montana 10 years ago. Survivors include a son, J. Spencer Schumacher of Inglewood, Calif.; a daughter, Jasa Jawn Schumacher of Denver, Colo.; a brother and sister-in-law, Jon and Ione Schumacher of Missoula, Mont.; and many great aunts, cousins, nieces, and nephews. A graveside service was held Aug. 31 at Lakeview Cemetery in Polson, followed by a reception at the Kwataqnuk Resort. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Mont. Grogan Funeral Home of Polson handled the arrangements.