Elynor Schuppel

1934 - 2024

Elynor Schuppel
09/08/1934 - 10/03/2024
Elly was a wonderful person: considerate, thoughtful, kind, intelligent, genuine, hard working, engaged. She loved to hear how and what family and friends were doing, asking questions and remembering the answers, making new friends along the way. She loved her family, celebrating holidays and life events together, supporting them. She was an excellent employee, a devoted mother and wife, a happy and loving life partner. She enjoyed traveling, reading non-fiction, walking, cooking, spending time at Tahoe, playing Bridge, keeping in touch with friends.
Elynor grew up in Portland, Oregon, graduating from Roosevelt High. She then went to the University of Oregon, majoring in Economics, making lifelong friends in the dormitory and her sorority. She met Bill on a blind date in their freshman year. They started their special, amazing and awesome 70-year marriage at the end of their sophomore year, completing their last two years of college together. They packed up their sedan and moved to San Francisco immediately after graduation.
Elly used her shorthand and typing skills to get a good job as a secretary and made more lifelong friends at work. When their children were born, Elly happily concentrated on being a mother and housewife, juggling schedules, planning family vacations, keeping their home clean and tastefully decorated. She cooked delicious meals, watching Julia Child and using fresh ingredients. She and her friends enjoyed meeting at parks with their children while their husbands were at work. Elly hosted dinner parties with those same friends to enjoy adult conversation while their children played together.
Elly worked at Bill's commercial building architecture firm, William Schuppel & Associates, after all their children were in school, first as his secretary, then as the bookkeeper and executive assistant. She was excellent at her jobs, and enjoyed being in downtown SF and working with Bill. She organized many trips locally and broad for the two of them - walking trips in Ireland and Italy, sightseeing in England, France and Italy, annual trips to New York City. They took their grandchildren on memorable trips to Boston, Washington DC and New York City. She kept travel journals and treasured every minute.
The family cabin at Tahoe was one of Elly's favorite places. There were holidays and learning to ski with the family in winter, tennis and sailing their boats Gemini I and Gemini II in summer. She was an enthusiastic First Mate to Bill's Captain, always amazed by the beauty of the lake. She valued spending time with her many "Tahoe Friends."
Early retirement brought opportunities to learn Bridge together and have fun playing with their lifelong friends and new friends. Elly was an astute bridge player, as was Bill. Their "Bridge Group" went on cruises together, sharing travel and cards. Elly joined the Francisca Club and enjoyed playing Bridge, interesting author talks, and book discussions. She broadened her cooking skills to become an expert at making their morning espressos.
Elly and Bill raised three children in San Francisco: Jenni Frentzen (Clark), Paula Schuppel, and William R. (deceased). She leaves four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Elly was always grateful for the endless beauty and bounty she and Bill found together in California.
Elynor Anne Schuppel passed away, of natural causes, on Thursday, October 3, 2024. She was 90 years old.