Lolita M. Appel

Lolita M. Appel, age 50, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 7:30 A.M. on Sunday, August 4, 2013, at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she a patient, after an extended illness. Mrs. Appel was a 1981 graduate of Edgerton High School and was a rural postal carrier in Hicksville for fifteen years. Prior to working at the post office, she had worked at Ohio Art Company for seven years. She was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church in Edgerton and the Rosary Altar Society, of which she was vice president, and was active in the church as a former school board member at St. Mary School, as a former member of the parish council and as a longtime song leader and choir participant. She served one term with the Defiance County Soil and Water Supervisory Board and was active with the Edgerton Community Choir, the FFA Alumni, of which she served as secretary, and was a fan of the Ohio State Buckeyes. Lolita M. Appel was born on February 27, 1963, in Defiance, Ohio, the daughter of Louis J. and Joann F. (Stark) Schaper. She married Duane R. Appel on April 26, 1986, in Edgerton and he survives. Survivors also include two sons, Aaron Appel, of St. Louis, Missouri, and Brandon Appel, of Edgerton; one daughter, Natalie Appel, of Edgerton; a granddaughter, Addyson Appel; her father, Louis Schaper, of Bryan, Ohio; her mother, Joann (Bob) Lantz, of Bryan; one sister, Jenny (David) Reamsnyder, of West Unity, Ohio; and three brothers, Bill (Wendy) Schaper, Dan (Sara) Schaper and Tom (Heather) Schaper, all of Bryan. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, August 7, 2013, from 2:00-8:00 P.M. in the Krill Funeral Home, Edgerton. Services will be held on Thursday, August 8, 2013, at 10:30 A.M. at St. Mary Catholic Church in Edgerton with Father David Cirata officiating. Interment will follow in Tamarack Cemetery near Edgerton. Memorials are requested to St. Mary School or to Susan G. Komen Foundation to fight breast cancer.