The memorial service celebrating and honoring the life of Virginia Caroline Campbell Veit Schlemmer, 94, of Hunter, formerly of Enid will be held 10:00 A.M. Saturday August 18, 2018 in the Brown-Cummings Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Gary Miller officiating. A private family burial will follow in the White Cemetery, Hunter, Oklahoma. Services and complete cremation care are under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.
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She was born October 3, 1923 to Monroe and Marie Mastny Campbell on a farm southwest of Hunter and passed from this life August 4, 2018 in her home on the family farm.
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She was raised and educated in Hunter, Oklahoma and attended the country school and graduated from Hunter High School. At Daisy’ Café she was introduced to Evain Veit. With the outbreak of World War II Evain joined the Air Corp and while at training, called and asked her to marry him, with her father’s permission she boarded a bus and traveled to Savanna, Georgia where they were married in 1943. In 1946 she and Evain moved to a farm north of Hunter where they spent the next 36 years. Virginia helped raise 3 children, drove a wheat truck during harvest, helped raise and train greyhounds until 1979 when Evain died of Cancer. Virginia served as President of the American Legion and served in the PTA, was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, she loved to cook and enjoyed quilting, sewing crocheting, and gardening. In 1981 she moved to Enid, learned to bowl, and met Roy Schlemmer, the couple was married in 1986. Virginia joined the First Presbyterian Church, where she helped deliver meals on wheels, was a volunteer at Bass hospital and learned to play Golf and Bridge. She and Roy traveled Europe, went on Caribbean and Alaskan Cruised, attended church seminars and enjoyed the company of friends and family throughout her life. In 2014 she moved into assisted living after a compression fracture, lost most of her sight and hearing, in 2017 she experienced a compound fracture and lost the ability to walk. Through all of this she never lost her belief in God or the ability to smile, laugh, and be kind to others.
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She is survived by a daughter Karma Warren and husband David of Wichita, Kansas; a son Dean Veit, of Hunter, Oklahoma; four grandchildren, Shannon Gibson and husband Jason, of Tahlequah, Jason Viet and wife Jasmine, of Woodland Park, Colorado, Emily Christofferson and husband Joshua, of Providence, Rhode Island, David Warren, of Wichita, Kansas; nephew Greg Veit and wife Marietta, of Enid, nieces, Kate, Jan, Lynn; and great-grandchildren.
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She was preceded in death by her parents (Monroe and Marie), three brothers, John, Charlie and Eldon Campbell; three sisters, Agnes Marsolf, Frances Grammer and Dorothy Hannon, husband Evain Veit; two daughters, Meril Veit and Carol Spangler; husband, Roy Schlemmer.
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The family requests the in lieu of flowers memorials be made in her name to Hospice Circle of Love or The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF).
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Condolences may be made to the family online at www.Brown-Cummings.com. As one of Oklahomaʼs oldest single family owned and operated providers of funerals and cremations, Brown-Cummings is the name families have turned to for generations. They fully understand the honor and responsibility entrusted to them to preserve the story of oneʼs life. Visit 400 W. Maple, Enid, OK 73701. Call: (580) 237-5432.
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