Dear Mother of Jennifer Bauer (John), James Schauer, Jacquelyn Schauer, Jeffrey Schauer (Lori), Janet McClure (Eric), Julia Schauer, Jessica Limbaugh; Grandmother of Alex, Andrew and Anna Bauer, Heath Schauer, Lara and Holly Weaver, Colin and Brett Schauer, Shelley McClure Bird, Carrie and Melanie McClure, Nathan Limbaugh; Greatgrandmother of Arabella Milne, Matilda Bauer, Wyatt Constatine; and Aunt of Martha Hinote. Mom was born Victoria Ann Pavlick Feb. 12, 1923 in Duquense, PA . Her parents were Rev. John Pavlick, a priest in the Ruthenian Rite of the Catholic Church, and Olga Anna Petrassovich "Mimi". Ruthenia was the name of the area in the Carpathian Mountains bordering the Ukraine. Mimi's family also had roots from this mountain area. The arranged marriage lasted 9 years and the couple was divorced in 1928. Mom and her older sister, Mary Virginia, lived witih Mimi in the Washington DC area and spent summers with their maternal grandmother, Eugenia (Fencik) Petrassovich in Scranton, PA. Mimi had their surname legally changed to Paul in 1940 and 7 years later married Dallas D. Irvine, a military historian with National Archives in Washington, DC. During WW II Mom applied for and was hired as secretary for a newly formed organization the Office of Strategic Services or OSS (which later became the CIA). At 18 years of age she was the youngest civilian female sent overseas during the war. Her boss, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. became a renowned historian and member of Kennedy administrations think tank. Mom experienced the Blitz (German fire bombing) in London; took personal snapshots of Gen. Charles de Gualle riding triumphantly down the Champs de Elysee during the liberation of Paris and was present in Germany when the allied armies freed concentration prisoners. All by the time she was 22. After the war she went to San Fransisco to find work and in the fall of 1945 met Paul Schauer at a USO dance for returning soldiers and sailors from the Pacific Theater. They married raised 7 children and divorced in 1977. Mom married Gene Jessee, a retired engineer from Monsanto, in 1985 and lived in St Louis with him until his death in 2005. She moved to Springfield, Mo in 2007. Mom is survived by her 7 children, 12 grandchildren , 3 great grandchildren and a niece, Martha Hinote.