LAFAYETTE
After attending a meeting of the General de Lafayette Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, an organization she loved and her ancestor helped found, and planting some potatoes and marigolds in her garden, Cecily Bottum Schneider retired to her house and bed and after a time, gave up the good fight her body had made for years.
She was interested in the history of Indiana’s Potawatomie, the Miami, the lives of the earliest settlers of Lafayette, the welfare of the Wabash River, the preservation of the Wabash and Erie Canal, and was most recently involved in helping to solve problems that face the aged in Indiana.
As a girl in Columbus, Indiana she rode her motorcycle to high school and once wrote a letter to the editor asking why girls in sports in those days received charm bracelets rather than being awarded letter jackets like the boys. She learned how to shot put but being small settled for coxswain on a medal-winning rowing team powered by men.
Born July 12, 1957 in St. Elizabeth hospital in Lafayette to Bruce and Annette Winter Bottum, she grew up in Columbus, Indiana, graduated from Indiana University, married Michael Schneider, lived awhile in Bavaria, Germany, next in Lafayette and lastly at her family’s Lafayette home place. She is buried at Spring Vale Cemetery in Lafayette.
Those who survive her with fondness are her mother and her brothers and sisters who are: MacKenzie (Michelle) Bottum, Jessica (Craig) Hoagland, Joshua (Astrid) Bottum, Annette Bottum (Hassan Musa), and Rebecca (David) Behrman.
Memorials in Cecily’s name are suggested to either the General de Lafayette Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution or an environmental cause of your choice.
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