Barbara Schone
October 13, 1940 - April 06, 2007
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Barbara Schone
October 13, 1940 - April 06, 2007
Obituary
Barbara Jean Schone, age 66, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and friend, passed away peacefully on April 06, 2007 Good Friday at her home in Mission Viejo, California after a courageous three year battle with ovarian cancer. She was a twenty-five year survivor of breast cancer.
Barbara was born on October 13, 1940 in Kansas City, Kansas, one of four children to parents John and Anna Fabac. She attended Wyandotte High School and Kansas City, Kansas Junior College. She married her ‘high school sweetheart,’ Don Schone, on May 27, 1961 and together they moved to Downey, California. Barbara was part of Downey North American Aviation during the first moon landing. In 1970 they moved to the planned community of Mission Viejo, California with their two sons, Scott and Steve. She worked for Mission Viejo Company MVC, Public Relations-Community Development, from 1971 until her retirement in 1997.
Barbara devoted much of her retired life to volunteer work and historical MVC alumni projects within the community. On February 5, 2007, she was honored with the televised ‘Community of Character Award’ by the Mission Viejo City Council. Her close family and many MVC friends attended.
Barbara is survived by her husband, Don; sons, Scott wife Kathleen and Steve; grandchildren Andrew and Annaka; brothers, Bill and John Fabac of Kansas City, Kansas; sister, JoAnn Fabac DaSilva of Las Vegas, Nevada; sister-in-law Alice Schone Adams of Athol, ID; brother-in-law, Hugh Schone of Garden Grove, California and a nephew and four nieces in California, Kansas and Idaho.
Funeral Mass and services will be held Friday, April 13, 2007 at 10:30am at St. Kilian Catholic Church in Mission Viejo, followed by a luncheon reception to celebrate Barbara’s life at the Mission Viejo Country Club and then burial ceremony at Ascension Catholic Cemetery in Lake Forest, California.
Barbara Fabac Schone’s special qualities of kindness, consideration and devotion to family and friends will be dearly missed. She will be forever in our hearts.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.
167 responses to Barbara Schone
Kendra Fortin says:
April 20, 2007
Uncle Don, Scott and Steve,
Although it has taken me 2 weeks to sign this guestbook, I have logged on many times to read all the kind messages from the lives Aunt Barb has touched. I have thought of you all so much this past year since the family and I have moved. Wish I had gotten the chance to see Aunt Barb before we left CA. I wish I could have been at her services. Mom said it was really beautiful.
I hold a lifetime of memories of Barb’s kind smile and bright eyes close to my heart. She was a wonderful woman with a warm and generous soul. Always putting family and friends before herself. I am truly sorry for your loss.
Sending our love to you all.
Take care,
Kendra, Rich, Aric and Adam
Ricjard Smith says:
April 20, 2007
Dear Don,
I have of thought of you and Barb often over the years, and now this! I’m so sorry. I don’t know quite what to say. Words don’t come easy for me at times like this. Just know that I’m thinking of you and the boys.
Do you realize the last time I saw you was in 1966 or ’67 41 years ago. You came to see me at my old bar. The two of us went up to JuCo to visit with Paul Jewell. Were you aware of PJ’s passing?
I know these words must seem somewhat hollow by now, but sincerely, if there is anything I can do for you…just let me know.
Love, Rich
Roe & Angelo Devito says:
April 20, 2007
We wanted to tell you that the services held for Barbara were very meaningful and contemporary and classy…befitting such a classy lady.
Attending the Mass and reception and spending time with Polly Patterson and the Swaims and seeing the Del Prado girls and your children….well, it just brought back such memories of the 1970s and the “original owners” of La Pala Lane. We all became each other’s family and that feeling just doesn’t go away.
When our son, David, was born you and Barb left a bottle of champagne and a lovely plant on our doorstep. That plant has been cut many times to make new plants…the original still grows on our patio.
Our heartfelt sympathy to you and the boys and the rest of the family. Barb will be sorely missed!
Fondly, Roe and Ang
Richard Smith says:
April 21, 2007
Dear Don,
I have of thought of you and Barb often over the years, and now this! I’m so sorry. I don’t know quite what to say. Words don’t come easy for me at times like this. Just know that I’m thinking of you and the boys.
Do you realize the last time I saw you was in 1966 or ’67 41 years ago. You came to see me at my old bar. The two of us went up to JuCo to visit with Paul Jewell. Were you aware of PJ’s passing?
I know these words must seem somewhat hollow by now, but sincerely, if there is anything I can do for you…just let me know.
Love, Rich
Dave Mott says:
April 27, 2007
Don, I just learned from Mike Calwell that Barb passed away. I knew that she was having a tough battle with cancer but it is still a shock to learn of her passing. I didn’t know Barb as well as many of your Wyandotte friends, but I thought that she was a such lovely person. We will all miss her! She mailed pictures of some of our HS reunions to me & I had a number of very nice conversations with her. You guys must have had a winderful 40+ year life together. I wanted you to know that I was thinking of you & your family. There’s nothing I can say to make you feel better but you have a lot of great memories of her.
Wyandotte Class of 59,
Dave Mott