Barbara Houston Schaeffer, wife of Ron Schaeffer for fifty years, passed away in her sleep Sunday morning, Feb. 23. She was born in Louisville, KY and raised in LaGrange Park, IL. She and her husband lived in LeRoy in the early 70s, and Barbara took an MFA degree at Il State University in Acting and Directing, and taught two years at Central Catholic High School in Bloomington. She and her husband moved to Kansas City in 1980 to work at the Missouri Repertory Theatre – he as Production Manager and she as actress. She is survived by her husband and two children – Laura Lee Wolf Schaeffer and Daniel Houston Schaeffer, and three grandchildren. She will be sorely missed by all who knew her.