Audrey Hazel

Long

Audrey Hazel Long (nee Hartman) was born in February 16, 1916 in St. Louis, Missouri to the union of George W. Hartman and Elizabeth Bumb and she died on October 19, 2007 at the age of 91 years and eight months. Death finally came after a three month fight with brain cancer at Greenville Health Care nursing home in Greenville, Wayne County, Missouri. Audrey was first married to Donald John Schulte in 1940. She married second to Clarence Eugene (Eugene C.) Long in 1948. Third marriage was to Lyman Jerome (Jerry) Lofgren in 1964. From her second marriage a son was born, Terry Randall (Randy) Long resides in rural Shannon County, MO. Besides being a homemaker, she worked for federal and local government agencies as a clerk typist. She spent the first 32 years of her life in St. Louis and then moved on to work in Guam and Japan. She later worked and lived in Sacramento and at South Lake Tahoe in California. But, after almost 40 years in California, it was time to come home to Missouri and she had lived here since 1996. Audrey had a love of nature and wildlife and enjoyed living with the peace and serenity in the rural environment of her son's home in Shannon County. She wrote poetry, painted nature scenes, loved to read, and was always ready to explore the outdoors. She always said that she had the wonder lust to travel and explore. She was preceded in death by a brother, George Lawrence Hartman and a sister, Violet Elizabeth Hutti (nee Hartman). In addition to her son and a few cherished friends, she also leaves behind several nieces and nephews, Warren G. Hutti and family of St. Louis, Valerie R. Pelot (nee Hutti) and family of Godfrey, IL, and an adopted niece, Paula K. Ehret of Gray Summit, MO. At her request there will be no services. She wanted all who knew her to remember her as she was. Her cremated remains will be buried in the family cemetery along Carr Creek in Shannon County, Missouri. A good mother and friend.