Wood & Torbert Families

Ella Vannah Washington

b. 4 May 1909, d. 28 December 1996

Ella Vannah Washington was born on 4 May 1909 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee.
She married Francis Osborne Schaefer.
Ella Vannah Washington became a widow at the 16 May 1984 death of her husband Francis Osborne Schaefer.
Ella Vannah Washington died on 28 December 1996 at age 87 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee.
She was interred at Memorial Park Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee.
The following appeared on 30 December 1996 in the Memphis Commercial Appeal: Ella V. Washington Nix Schaefer, 87, of Memphis, retired treasurer for Central Woodwork Inc., died of heart failure Saturday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. today at Grace St. Luke's Episcopal Church, where she was a communicant, with burial in Memorial Park. Memorial Park Funeral Home has charge. She was a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association, Zona Club and the Gailor Chapter of Episcopal Church Women. Mrs. Schaefer, the widow of Lt. Joshua James Nix and Osborne Schaefer, leaves two sons, Walter C. Nix of Memphis and Robert T. Nix of Atlanta; three stepsons, Osborne Schaefer Jr. of Heber Springs, Ark., and Dudley P. Schaefer and William W. Schaefer, both of Memphis, 10 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Grace St. Luke's Episcopal Church or to a church of the donor's choice.