Marilyn Ruth Schaack Schaubert, 96, passed away Sunday, June 1, 2025, in Henderson, NV.

Daughter of Mathias and Theresa (Laber) Schaack, Marilyn was born Oct. 26, 1928, in Sykeston, ND, where she grew up on the family farm just outside of town. After graduating from Sykeston High School, Marilyn moved to Fargo, ND, and entered an associate arts degree program to become a registered nurse.

Marilyn graduated from nurse training and was awarded a nursing license (RN), then took a position at a hospital in Denver, CO.

After several years, Marilyn married Vernon Schaubert, and they moved to California, where they raised a family.  Marilyn became a stay-at-home mom to 4 children, becoming an expert seamstress, birthday cake decorator, cub scout leader, class mom, and all-around problem solver. It isn’t until the last child is in high school that she goes back to work as an RN at the neighborhood hospital. She will retire from that position when it’s time for the retirement move to Henderson, NV, in 2001.

Marilyn enjoyed crafts, including needlepoint, painting, crocheting, knitting, and decorating the coolest cakes for her kids’ and grandkids’ birthdays. She sewed prolifically, creating everything from clothes for Barbies to Halloween costumes to curtains and quilts.

For most of her adult life, Marilyn participated in league bowling and enjoyed playing cards. Mostly, she liked being around friends. Nothing beat several cups of coffee shared around the kitchen table, where major and minor topics were discussed in detail. Among her causes was saving the trees at Orcutt Park (she won) and second-guessing the Catholic Church’s decision to say the mass in English (she lost). In her youth, she worked out regularly with Jack LaLanne on TV. Later, the desire to exercise lapsed, replaced by a decades-long loyalty to Dr. Phil and Oprah. The Los Angeles Lakers were her team.

Marilyn was preceded in death by her son, Scott; her parents, her sisters, Norma Zink and Valeria Herman, and her brothers, Jack and Bob Schaack. She is survived by her brother, Jerry Schaack of Bismarck, ND; sons, Mark (Michelle) Schaubert of Battle Ground, WA, and Neil Schaubert of Los Angeles, CA; and daughter, Mary Schaubert of Abilene, TX; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

A Visitation will be Friday, June 13, 2025 from 1:00PM-2:00PM followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 2:00PM all at St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church, Sykeston, ND for Marilyn, as well as her husband, Vernon J. Schaubert, and son, Scott J. Schaubert.

The Burial will be at St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Cemetery, Sykeston.