Christine Severson Schaezlein
March 31, 1935 - January 16th, 2022
Christine Schaezlein was born Christine Bloom Severson in Everett Washington on March 31st, 1935 to Bill and Florence Severson. She grew up with her younger sister Sandy in Everett and graduated high school in 1953. After high school, Chris attended the University of Washington and the Swedish Hospital School of Nursing, graduating in 1958 with a Bachelor of Science degree and her Nurse's credential. She was a member of the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority, remaining active for most of her life.
After Chris's father bought a vacation house on the beach on Puget Sound in Marysville, the family would spend wonderful summers at Mission Beach, her parents eventually moving there full time.
After graduating from the University of Washington and Swedish Hospital Nursing Program, Chris continued to work at Swedish Hospital for three years. Around 1960, Chris decided to strike out and leave the Pacific Northwest for San Francisco, taking a nursing job at UCSF Hospital, working in the Maternity ward and Eye floor, eventually becoming Head Nurse. She caught the traveling bug and traveled to Hawaii with her sister and later all over Europe with friends from her nursing school days who had also moved to San Francisco.
While working at UCSF Hospital, Chris became good friends with Martha Zemanek, the office manager on her floor. Martha introduced Chris to Bob Schaezlein, a man Martha had grown up with in San Francisco who had become widowed a year or so before. They immediately hit it off and were married in 1970. Chris retired from her nursing career to be at home with Bob's 7 year old son, Rob.
Chris was a very generous and caring person who, in addition to raising Rob, was very involved in the community, volunteering at Meals on Wheels, St. Johns United Church of Christ, California Questors preservation organization, and Beta Sigma Pi, an offshoot of her old sorority.
Chris was preceded in death by Bob in 2008, and peacefully passed away on January 16th, 2022, from complications of Alzheimer's disease. She was a loving wife, sister, sister in-law, mother, and grandmother, and is survived by her sister Sandy Robertson (husband Don), children Gary (wife Holly), Rob (wife Mary), and Nancy Schaezlein, Grandchildren Charlie and Danny Schaezlein, Jennifer and Nick Zipse, and Michael Schaezlein, niece and nephew Joanne and John Robertson (and Ji Yeon), and grand niece and nephew Ella and Adam.
Thank you, Chris, you touched and brought many people together. You were the best and always to be remembered. Private service to be held at Mt. Tamalpais Cemetery.
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