Nikki Marion Schmidt's Obituary
Nikki Marion Schmidt was born on May 10, 1949 to Joseph M. and Irene A. (nee Buss) Jacobs in Port Townsend, Washington. She was baptized as a little girl in the Lutheran Church of Our Savior in Fullerton, California. She attended parochial school at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Colorado
Springs, Colorado, where she was confirmed in 1963. After her family moved to Port Angeles, she graduated from Port Angeles High School in June of 1967. After high school she worked for a time at Olympic Laundry in Port Angeles and also worked at a day care there. She worked at Lake Crescent Lodge as a housekeeper in Port Angeles, before starting work in the Bumble Bee Cannery in Astoria. In 1978 she moved to Kodiak, AL with her sister and brother-in-law and worked at a cannery there.
Later she moved to Tacoma where she attended Clover Park College, training to be a nursery/pre-school teacher. She worked for The Chalet nursery and pre-school of Lakewood,and then later in Parkland for Toddler House. On April 10, 1983 she married Pastor David Schmidt at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Tacoma and moved to be with him in Washougal, Washington where he was pastor of St. Matthew Lutheran Church.
On November 1, 1983 they moved to Nampa, Idaho, where Pastor Schmidt became the pastor of Zion Lutheran Church. Their son, Micah David, was born on June 28, 1988 (born in Tacoma because they were visiting family members at the time). On December 1, 1995 they moved to Tacoma where
her husband became pastor of Zion Lutheran Church. He retired on January 1, 2009. They then joined Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Tacoma, where she was a member until her death on May 8, 2019, just two days short of her 70th birthday.
She loved little children and related to them so well. She taught Sunday School and Vacation Bible School in the churches they belonged to for 22 years. She loved to sew beaded calendars for her family members, loved solving puzzles, including on her I-pad. She was a quiet person in public, but had a sharp wit and sense of humor. She was very loving to her husband and family members, had a “servant attitude”(like her mother) and a strong faith in her Lord Jesus.
She is survived by her husband, David; by a son, Pastor Micah (and Elizabeth) Schmidt of North Branch, Minnesota; by three sisters - Arla Barbrick of Puyallup; Cathy Steinhorst and Marie Jacobs, both of Port Angeles, by her good friend and cousin, Nancy (and Dan, and son, Danny) Miller of Spanaway, and by special grand nephew and grand niece, Scott and Raina Anders of Seattle and Sequim and two .
Memorials may be directed to Lutheran Hour Ministries in St. Louis, Missouri; or to the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Foreign Missions, also in St Louis, or to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church of Tacoma.
A graveside service will be held for her at Mountain View Memorial Park in Lakewood on Wednesday, May 22nd at 1:30 p.m/ And a memorial service will take place at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Tacoma on Saturday, June 8th at 11 a.m.
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