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Server 'took care of the whole town' � Popular Lil' Chef waitress dies at 74
By linux server software flash Jim Totten • DAILY PRESS & ARGUS • July 29, 2008
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Betty Schemer knew how to take care of people.
The longtime Lil' Chef waitress knew exactly how a couple wanted their bread toasted � dark but not burnt � and buttered. Another regular customer loved her so much he simply walked into the Brighton eatery and always sat in her section. He wasn't alone. Many customers wanted to only sit in Schemer's section.
For 35 years, Schemer served with a smile countless locals at the popular eatery, which closed this year. She snap server began working at Lil' Chef when it opened in 1973. She even baked cookies for some of her customers, and many became her good friends.
Her kindness went beyond her job, as one of her daughters remembered how her mother used to take in some of the young employees if they didn't have a place to stay.
Schemer died Saturday at finding cameras on your server Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital in Superior Township, near Ann Arbor. She underwent successful surgery on July 16 to remove cancer from one of her lungs, but suffered health problems after yahoo server email server information the procedure.
Doctors operated on her again Friday to fix some blocked arteries, but daughter Michelle O'Herron said her mother's body was tired from the stress and her heart gave out Saturday.
She was 74.
"Thirty-five years we worked there together," said Sue Wenzel, restaurant manager. "She was a very, very classy lady."
Wenzel said her friend never complained, was always dhcp server unreachable in good health and could only remember Schemer calling in sick once during her 35 years as a waitress.
"She always had a smile, all day, every day, for everybody," Wenzel said.
Schemer continued working at the restaurant on a full-time basis into her 70s and only in recent years agreed to cut back to three or four days a week.
Wenzel perl upload file apache server example said Lil' Chef had a family atmosphere, and she and the other longtime employees became good friends with the owners and their customers. Recently, former owner Jim Steele and his wife invited Schemer, Wenzel and both escapedturkey server of their husbands to dinner.
"I'm going to miss talking to my buddy," Wenzel said.
While some people think about slowing down when they reach their 70s, Schemer wasn't one of them.
"She was like a teenager," O'Herron said. "I'm only 50 and she could do circles around me."
She said her mother was "best friends" with her daughter, Megan. The two would microsoft sql server upgrade prices go in-line skating and biking together. When Megan turned 21, her grandmother went to the bar with her and danced and had a good time.
O'Herron said her mother tried to reach out to numerous young employees at the restaurant, letting them live at her house temporarily if they didn't have a place to stay. She said her mother would help anyone, adding, "The young kids loved my mother."
The restaurant provided all of Schemer's children with some of their first workplace experience. All of her five children worked at the restaurant at some period.
"The whole family worked there except for my dad," O'Herron said. She then recalled her server clip arts father did the landscaping at the restaurant at one point.
Lori Schemer, a daughter-in-law, said everyone knew Schemer when she went around town on errands.
"She took care of the whole town," Lori Schemer said.
Schemer was married 53 years to Robert, who survives. They have five children: John (Mary) , Jim (Lori), Joe (Tonia), Michelle (Les) O'Herron and Brenda (Mark) Donovan; and 10 grandchildren.
Visitation will be held from 2-8 p.m. Thursday at Keehn Funeral Home, 706 W. Main St. in Brighton, with a prayer service at 7 p.m. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 711 Rickett proxy server lists Road in Brighton.
Contact Daily Press & Argus reporter Jim Totten at (517) 548-7088 or at [email protected].
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