Phyllis Ann Lang
1926 - 2012 (85 years)-
Name Phyllis Ann Lang Born 4 Apr 1926 Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, USA 
[1, 2] Gender Female Died 2 Feb 2012 Falling Waters, Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA Buried Y [3] Person ID I219547 Suedpfalz Last Modified 15 Jun 2014
Father Chauncey Phillip Lang, b. 29 May 1894, Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio, USA , d. 19 Sep 1980, Palmetto, Manatee County, Florida, USA (Age 86 years) Mother Catherine Elizabeth Schrock, b. 14 Jan 1898, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, USA , d. 14 Mar 1991, Manatee County, Florida, USA (Age 93 years) Married 30 May 1918 [1] Family ID F40451 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Dr. John Samuel Moffitt, b. 26 Sep 1924, Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 24 Aug 1992, Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA (Age 67 years) Married 15 Mar 1944 Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA Children 1. John Lindsay Craig Moffitt 2. Lynne Frances Moffitt 3. Judith Ann Moffitt Last Modified 1 May 2018 Family ID F80018 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Notes about Phyllis Ann (Lang) Moffitt Written by her daughter Lynne Frances Moffitt : 2011 (Edited by Phyllis)Her family is the most important thing to her. She always says shedearly loves her children, delights in the grandchildren but the bestare her great grandchildren! This is for her 5 Great Grandchildren sothey too can know and remember their GG. (She wasn?t always old youknow)Phyllis was born on 4/4/26 in Wheeling, WV on Easter Sunday becausealthough her parents lived in St. Clairsville, O, the hospital wasjust across the Ohio river in Wheeling. Her parents were CatherineElizabeth (Schrock) Lang and Chauncey Philip Lang. She had two oldersisters, Catherine Elizabeth Lang and Barbara Jane Lang Goodman, bothwho were born in Ohio as were her parents. In her immediate family sheand her Granddaughter Christina are the only ones born in WV.Story of Phyllis? birth is because her Mother?s labor was prolonged, anurse left a leaf of lettuce under the bed so that the Easter Bunnywould be enticed to come and bring the baby . It worked as in themorning Phyllis was there and the lettuce was gone ! She was namedPhyllis after her Dad?s middle name. For years she thought she Easterbunny brought her.The Lang family moved to State College when Phyllis was two when herDad accepted a position in the Agriculture Extension Dept. at PennState College.She went to the very first nursery school started on the campus atPenn State. And started first grade at age 5 .. there were not therestrictions then that there are now and so was always one of theyoungest student in her class all the way through school. Her sisterswere 6 and 7 years older and her Mom was probably tired of being tieddown by a youngster.They say ?It takes a village to raise a child? and Phyllis was livingproof of that ! She was the kind of little girl who would ?forget? towear her coat but dragged it along behind her, and she loved jumpingin mud puddles. Her Mother always knew what she had done because theneighbors would have phoned and alerted her Mom before Phyllis made ithome. Well it made for some interesting Halloweens when it waspay-back time!As a child Phyllis had several major illnesses. At 4 she had whoopingcough and measles at the same time and was not expected to live. Thedoctor had 2 other children patients also very sick at the time butcomforted her family by sitting by her bedside as he thought Phylliswas the one who would not survive. In those days in the sickroom theywould closed all the curtains and keep the room dark. Her mother,Catherine, decided that her daughter was not gong to die in the darkand opened all the blinds to let the light in ! Whether it was thelight or the comfort of the Dr. by her bedside Phyllis was only one ofthose sick children to live.At age 8 Phyllis had rheumatic fever and had to spend all that summerin bed recovering. All their lives her Mother and sisters believedPhyllis had a weak heart and should be sheltered. Phyllis resistedtheir attempts to make her an invalid and ignored their suggestions totake it easy.She graduated from State College High School in 1943. And she startedto date her future husband, John Samuel Moffitt. John was a year aheadof her in school but they first started to date after taking an oneact play to a competition in Shippensburg, Pa. He was the studentdirector of the play she was in. They were both members of theThespians Club in HS.John was drafted and went into the Army in 1943. They decided to elopeand were married March 15, 1944. But since she was a month shy of her18th birthday her Mother had to go to Philadelphia also to sign forPhyllis ! She wore a stylish purple suit to get married in. Phylliswas already a high school graduate and attending Penn State College.They spent the weekend together before Phyllis went back home tocollege and John back to the army ASTP program he was in. Wheneverquestioned by her children about why they were married so young,Phyllis always answered, ?It was the war you know.?John was never sent overseas during WWII and Phyllis eventually quitcollege and moved to be with him when he entered Jefferson MedicalSchool in Philadelphia after he had done his pre-med at Johns Hopkins.In those days most young ladies became teachers, secretaries ornurses. Phyllis was enrolled in Home Ec. in early childhood education.Her daughter Lynne always said when people say young girls aren?ttaught how to be a mother ?My Mother was!?While John was in medical school, Phyllis worked as a dietician andthen in an Endocrinology Lab. Neither of which she had had any formaltraining for but ?It was the war you know.? VE Day was in June thatyear with VJ Day in August but John was still in the Army when hestarted medical school and the GI Bill paid for the other years.Their first child, John, was born at the end of his dad?s second yearat medical school.During her pregnancy Phyllis developed that old nasty heart murmur (which it turned out only showed up during pregnancies ) and washospitalized for 6 or 7 weeks at Jeff. As a perk of being a medicalstudent?s wife she was seen by all the best Jeff doctors who wouldmake their grand rounds everyday. Much to their surprise the murmurdisappeared immediately after delivery. At the time she was advisednot to have any more children because of the murmur. As usual Phyllisresisted any advice that would restrict her life so she went on tohave two more children. Lynne was born in Pottsville, Pa when John wasdoing an OB residency and Judy was born in Bellefonte, Pa. when Johnwas in private practice in Centre Hall, Pa.To back up alittle John did his internship at Walter Reed ArmyHospital in D.C. and the Korean War started. He was sent to Japan andthen to head a MASH unit in Korea. And Phyllis and Johnny moved backto State College with her parents. And she then took this opportunityto finish college, graduating in 1952, but electing to be part of herclass of 1947. In college she played in the concert Blue Band ( nowomen were allowed to be in the marching band at that time), joinedthe Delta Gamma sorority and got her BS in Home Economics in EarlyChildhood and Family Relationships. While John was still overseas shedirected a nursery school for the Episcopal Church. One perp wasJohnny attended free. And she acted as advisor to the Delta Gammassince she thought she was too experienced to just be a regular member.Phyllis was a somewhat indifferent student throughout HS and her first3 years of college. It was only after returning to college as a wifeand mother that she became an excellent student and made the honorroll her last two semesters. But she could always make her childrenlaugh by recalling some early college mishaps. She set the ChemistryLab on fire when she pushed a Bunsen burner back out her way but undera wood cabinet. The graduate assistant panicked and ran out with therest of the class and Phyllis had to put the fire out herself ! Buthaving learned very little chemistry she passed the course. She alwayssuspected it was so she wouldn?t have another opportunity to burn thelab down. She told about sitting for 2 hrs. in a final for Econ.because the only question she could answer was the law of supply anddemand and she was too embarrassed to turn it in and leave early.However she passed that class too for some odd reason. Her psychprofessor was the husband of the Delta Gamma advisor and the firstquestion he asked was ?Who there was a DG?? obviously he gavepreference to them ! Because her father was a professor many of herteachers knew him well and that old ?It takes a village et al? kickedin again and there was little that she did that didn?t get back to herparents. Lesson taught to her children was once when a prof. asked whoneeded an A in the class she didn?t raise her hand. Those who ?needed?the A raise their hands but Phyllis wasn?t smart enough to do that.Phyllis played the flute in HS and college and was a pretty good fluteplayer with a beautiful tone. In those days only men were in the PennState Marching band but due to The War ( The Greatest Generation) theconcert band didn?t march but played at the football games in theirplace.When Judith started school in Westchester, Il. Phyllis startedsubstituting in the schools there. In order to get teachingcredentials she went one summer to Chicago Teachers College whileJohnny, Lynne and Judy spent the summer with their grandparents inState College.When the family moved to Berkeley Co. she went to the local schoolboard to see if they ever needed substitutes and they convinced her orperhaps coerced her into taking a teaching job at Hooge St. Schoolteaching first grade. She had 40 students with no aides to help butshe and the children bonded and she had 4 good years there. To get allthe proper teaching credentials she took classes at Shepherd Collegeand Shippensburg College .. that was now her 4th college!A good friend talked her into taking the FSEE exam, needed in thosedays for Federal employment. She took it somewhat as a lark as shealways felt ?math challenged? and was sure she wouldn?t have a highenough score for Federal employment. Much to her surprise both IRS andthe VA offered her a job and she took the job with IRS NationalComputer Center. At that time NCC was on the VA land. She was acomputer operator although she spent very little time running acomputer but instead worked in Production Control (who in those daysscheduled the work for the computers) and eventually was selected tobe the Training and Public Affairs officer. She remembers theexcitement when Dan Rathers visited NCC and she escorted him around.Working there was very convenient as our family had quarters at the VAthen before buying a house on Van Clevesville road right across fromthose facilities.She loved her role as Mother and took it very seriously, never misseda football game of John?s, either when he was a player or coach; nor aplay in which Lynne or Judy were in at MHS. There is a no moreimportant job then being a momIn the late 1960s and early1970s Phyllis became an environmentalactivist helping to found the first Berkeley Co. Environmental Counselalong with Ginny Reisenweber. They collected recycling materials oncea month with help from volunteers. Recycling wasn?t a big deal inthose days and eventually they hard a hard time finding someplace totake the material for recycling.In the 1990s Phyllis and Norma Finfrock were co-chairs of Read AloudWV . They recruited and trained volunteers to read to children inclassrooms. Phyllis read at Tuscarora and Burke Street schools andoccasionally at the Public Library. Eventually her cardiac problemforced her to stop training readers for Read Aloud and reading inclassrooms, much to her dismay. She always felt that sharing the loveof reading with children was the most important work she was everinvolved in.In 1986 Phyllis had her first heart attack and took a medicaldisability retirement. In 1990 she had a triple by-pass at Georgetownand eventually has had implanted a defibrillator/pacemaker.Phyllis belonged to The League of Women Voters as long as there wasone in Berkeley Co, serving as President several times and acting as amoderator for the League?s political forums until they became sopopular that the radio station and newspaper decided to hold them.She also is a PEO (Poppa Eats Out) and again serving as presidentseveral times. And of course a member of Travel Club which wasstarted in 1904 in Martinsburg. Again serving as President and onvarious other committees.Belief in God and what he?ll do for you if you?re a believer is verystrong in Phyllis. She was raised in St. Paul?s Methodist EpiscopalChurch in State College and has been a Methodist all her life. Here inBerkeley Co. she first attended Trinity Methodist Church where sheserved on the Board of Trustees, finance committee, and worked withthe homeless before she transferred her membership to BedingtonU.M.Church. She feels she has found a real Church home there with aloving and caring congregation. She occasionally likes to go to Mt.Wesley U M Church when Reese and Reagan are part of the service.Her interest are many with books, music and bridge heading the list.
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Proposed Change: Chauncy C. Lang (I90560) Tree: Südpfalz / Southern Palatinate Link: http://www.birkenhoerdt.net/getperson.php?personID=I90560&tree=Suedpfalz Description: Chauncey Phillip Lang (Louis Phillip, Jean Michael, Johann Michael Lang) was born on May 29, 1894. He died September 19, 1980 in Palmetto, Manatee, Florida. His ashes are buried in Centre County Memorial Park, State College, Centre, Pennsylvania. Chauncey married Catherine Elizabeth Schrock, daughter of William Phillip and Bertha Estella (Eicher) Schrock on May 30, 1918. Catherine was born January 14, 1898 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio and died March 14, 1991 in Manatee County, Florida. Her ashes are buried in Centre County Memorial Park, State College, Centre, Pennsylvania. Catherine and Chauncey had the following children: Catherine Elizabeth Lang Barbara Jane Lang Phyllis Ann Lang Lynne Moffitt
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Proposed Change: Phyllis Ann Lang (I219547) Tree: Südpfalz / Southern Palatinate Link: http://www.birkenhoerdt.net/getperson.php?personID=I219547&tree=Suedpfalz Description: Phyllis Ann Lang (Chauncey P, Louis Phillip Lang, Elizabeth Yockey, Lorenz, Caspar Jacky) was born on April 4, 1926 in Wheeling, West Virginia. Phyllis died February 2, 2012 in Falling Waters, Berkeley, West Virginia. She donated her body to West Virginia University Medical School She was cremated afterwards and her ashes scattered in mountains of West Virginia. Phyllis married John Samuel Moffitt, son of Earle Lindsay and Helen Boyd (Dietrich) Moffitt. John was born September 26, 1924 in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He died August 24, 1992 in Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia. His ashes were buried in Centre County Memorial Park, State College, Pennsylvania. Phyllis and John had the following children: John Lindsay Moffitt (baptismal name: John Lindsay Craig) Lynne Frances Moffitt Judith Ann Moffitt Lynne Moffitt
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Birth: Jan. 31, 1885, Germany
Death: Oct. 27, 1930
Rhode Island, USA
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Rhode Island Deaths and Burials
Name Henry Schafft
Gender Male
Death Date 27 Oct 1930
Death Place Arlington, , Rhode Island
Age 45
Birth Date 1885
Marital Status Married
Spouse's Name Neilsa Schafft
living in Cranston in 1920 federal census:
Henry Schafft Head M 35 Germany
Nealse Schafft Wife F 40 Germany
Heckon S Schafft Son M 18 Germany
Gottleb Schafft Son M 12 Rhode Island
Edward Schafft Son M 10 Rhode Island
Laurence Schafft Son M 8 Rhode Island
Henry Schafft Son M 3 Rhode Island
United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards
Name Henry Schaffnit
Beneficiary's Name Margaretha Schaffnit
Event Type Pension
Event Date 1907-1933
Event Place United States
Form Type Army Widow
Death Date 05 Jan 1930
United States World War I Draft Registration Cards
Name Heinrich Schafft
Event Type Draft Registration
Event Date 1917-1918
Event Place Cranston City, Rhode Island, United States
Gender Male
Nationality Germany
Birth Date 31 Jan 1884
Birthplace , , Germany
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Spouse:
Nielsa Schafft (1879 - 1944)*
Children:
John Jacob Schafft (1914 - 1914)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Grace Church Cemetery
Providence
Providence County
Rhode Island, USA
Created by: Beth Hurd
Record added: Jul 01, 2016
Find A Grave Memorial# 166304716
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