On December 28, 2011, Elsie Virginia Schofield passed away at Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville, Maryland, where she had lived since 1998. She was 98. Mrs. Schofield was born September 15, 1913, in Lancaster, Virginia, and moved as a young girl with her family to Baltimore. She moved to New York City in 1933 and worked as a nurse at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for over 40 years. She returned to Baltimore in 1998. Her husband, William P. Schofield, predeceased her, as did her sisters Genevieve Burch (Matthew), Frances Ekas (Talbot), Louise Ziegler (William), and Elizabeth Jenkins (Floyd), and her brothers Arthur, Raymond, and William Haynie. Mrs. Schofield is survived by her son William P. Schofield Jr. (Patricia), a niece, Dell Button (Kenneth), and numerous great, great-great, and great-great-great nieces and nephews, and cousins.
Family will receive friends from 9:30-10AM on Saturday, December 31st at Our Lady of the Angels Chapel at Charlestown Retirement Community, where a funeral service will follow at 10AM. Burial will follow at Druid Ridge Cemetery. Arrangements by Sterling-Ashton-Schwab-Witzke Funeral Home of Catonsville, Inc.
