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Theodore "Ted" Schaafsma

Kalamazoo, Michigan

1921 - 2021

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Kalamazoo, Michigan
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Schaafsma, Theodore "Ted" 10/26/1921 - 10/23/2021 Portage Theodore Schaafsma, age 99, died peacefully at his home on October 23, 2021. He was born on October 26, 1921, in Springfield, South Dakota. The family moved from South Dakota to Michigan in the mid 1930's. Ted graduated from Martin High...

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I´m so sorry I couldn´t celebrate Uncle Ted´s life today. Another great memory you, girls, might not know about. Uncle Ted visited Dorothy and Don & I in the 1980´s in Texas. We had a fabulous tour of the Astrodome! How train tracks moved 1st base back for the Oilers . Judge Hoffeins was very creative with the Dome- 8th wonder of the world. His room themes were wild, carnaval, on and on. We had a great tour. In The 1970 with the gas crisis Ted and Vera drove me from Kalamazoo to Moline Il...

Another of the greatest generation gone too soon ( we´ll I know it was too soon for you snd your sister). I am sure he is up in heaven playing cards! You were always there for him