Sheila Bromley Schaeffer

True Adventure with mom, Caroline Hilda Bromley and dad, Percy Bromley. They left London, England and came to Niagra Falls. On their trip to California they stopped in Oklahoma to have a picnic on a warm day and left the car door open while they were on one side of the car the goats came up and were begging. Not enough food to feed all, some of the goats ate the door panels. Then their trip ended in Long Beach, Ca. Bought a house in Belmont Shore where Sheila lived just before going into the hospital for a month with heart failure. She graduated from Wilson and on to Pomona College and became a high school teacher. As a kid, she swam, ran, played tennis at the Los Alamitos Ranch and on high tides she would paddle her canoe all over Belmont Shore before the Sea Wall was constructed. Later, she became a member of the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club. She loved horseback riding. Later on in life took up bicycling in Germany and she learned to snow ski on a trip to see her daughter in Alaska. She joined Snowbounder Ski Club and traveled all over the world sightseeing all over the place. Her first teacher's job was in Shasta County, lumber mill town. Then later on in San Diego and finalize in Garden Grove. With all of this she loved her pastries, parties and gardening, especially her 29 roses. Up until this last month she had 2 music clubs, a retired Teachers Club, a Bicycle Club a Diners Club and used to go to a lot of tea parties, a Church Club where she played the piano and sang with the Church Choir. She loved the parades (Rose, HB 4th of July, Christmas Belmont Shore, Dog). We would be at the Car Shows forever where she examined each car. She volunteered every place, Meals on Wheels was a good one for her, People Needing People. Then in 1998, she became a "cougar". She met the love of her life at the gym while she was working out. We talked most everyday especially in the pool or Jacuzzi. 2 years later, Don Lee Roberts came to her house and has never left. We remodeled two of her houses one in Naples and the other in Belmont Shore. I came to help her with these and we both fell in love. Thirteen years later it was Love you and Thank you a lot and death do us part! Our trips all over California seeing flowers, bears, mountain sheep and people, mosquitos, deer and more people were our lives. Sheila really enjoyed our trip to Mount Rushmore- six days of sights and a real funny one was talking to two yearling bull bison's. Sheila was previously married and had four children. Sheila Ann (deceased) Jim, Adriane and Bonny and two grandchildren, Andrew and Christa and eight great grandchildren. Sheila never met a person she didn't like and everyone she met liked and remembered her. I can only remember her once losing her temper and that was about an airline luggage problem and after that she went and wrote on a piece of paper, "I will not lose my temper". Now that Sheila is with God and her Parents and Sheila Ann (daughter) and a lot of her friends, remember she is 96 ¾. She is in 7th Heaven and enjoying that world. This world loved Sheila and I still do. Goodnight Sheila- I love you, I'll meet you later. It has been a true adventure. Don Lee Roberts.
Viewing is Tuesday, Feb. 12 from 9am-2pm at Green Hills Mortuary 27501 S. Western Ave. in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA office: 310-831-0311, next to San Pedro, CA. Service is Thursday, Feb. 14 at 1pm at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 3rd St. and Atlantic Ave. in Long Beach, Ca. driveway on Atlantic Ave. office: 562-437-0958.
Sheila loved Valentine's Day.


Funeral Home:
Green Hills Mortuary and Memorial Chapel
27501 S.Western Ave.
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
US 90275