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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 29, 2009
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Joanne Schaeffer, 75, a former patient advocate at Southern
Maryland Hospital Center in Clinton, died Sept. 28 of complications
from heart surgery at Washington Hospital Center. She lived in the
District.
Mrs. Schaeffer worked for Southern Maryland Hospital Center for
20 years until retiring in the mid-1990s. Before that, she held
administrative assistant positions at what was then Greater
Southeast Community Hospital for 20 years.
She was born Joanne Ott in Williamsport, Pa., and moved to
Washington in 1972. She was a member of St. Augustine Catholic
Church in Washington. Her family said she was an advocate for the
disabled.
Two of her children died, Agnes Schaeffer in 1957 and Dennis ...