Tootsie Schmidt

Services for Hillsboro resident Mary “Tootsie” Schmidt, 74, who died March 18 at Hillsboro Community Hospital, were held Saturday at Zion Lutheran Church.

She was born May 12, 1946, in Hillsboro to Charles and Bernice (Steiner) McDowell.

She married Jerry Schmidt June 18, 1987, in Marion. He died in 2016.

Survivors include sons Christopher Frantz, rural Hillsboro, and Mitchell Frantz, Hillsboro; sister, Shirley Lewis, Wichita; stepson, Jeffery Schmidt; adopted daughter, Mary Anne Warden; and six grandchildren.

Burial was in Durham Park cemetery, rural Durham. A memorial fund has been established with Trojan Booster Club.