JERSEY CITY, N.J. _ Charlotte D. Schutte, 92, of Jersey City, N.J., passed away Monday, Oct. 26, 2009, after a short illness.

Charlotte was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and emigrated to West New York, N.J., when she was 3 years old. She eventually settled in Jersey City, N.J., with her husband Herman, to whom she was married for 62 wonderful years.

She is survived by her three children, Charlene, Mark and Alan; eight grandchildren, Lori, Jeanine, Frank, Vincent, Renee, Eric, Kyle and Mary; nine great-grandchildren, Codey, Emily, Abigail, Jameson, Samantha, Harleigh, Mia, Giovanni and Julien; and a huge, loving family inspired for years by her graciousness, sunny outlook and wonderfully, uniquely, Swiss sense of humor.

For years, her family happily wore the crazy knitted slippers with bells she was always giving out at Christmas time. She hid candied eggs for her grandchildren year after year in her yard at Easter, no matter how many times her own kids locked her out of the house while she was hiding the eggs.
She continued to receive free refills in her thermos at the local Norfolk, Va., Pizza Hut, 12 years after the promotion ended. She still beat her kids and grandkids regularly playing Jass and Cribbage into her 90s. She wrote letters to her friends long after her arthritis made it nearly impossible to hold a pen. She could make a vase of fresh flowers last longer than anyone.
She was special, and will be sorely missed, but never forgotten.

A wake will be from 2 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, at Migliaccio Funeral Home, 851 Kennedy Blvd., (at 33rd) Bayonne, N.J.

A funeral Mass will be conducted by Fr. Ronald Green in St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Worcester, at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. Burial will follow in the Maryland Cemetery in Maryland.

The Heller Funeral Home in Schenevus is assisting Migliaccio Funeral Home with the arrangements.