Edwin F. Schoff, 77, of Old Post Road died Tuesday at his home after a long illness. He was the husband of Anna R. Rennie Schoff. Mr. Schoff was born in Pittsburg, N.H., son of Ray E. and Winifred Bumford Schoff, and attended Spaulding High School in Barre, Vt.

During World War II, he served in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, and was in the Normandy invasion and the Battle of Bulge. He received three Purple Hearts, two Bronze Stars and numerous other decorations for action in Holland, Belgium and the Rhineland.

Mr. Schoff was a lifelong construction worker and welder for Griffin Construction Co. He was a life member of the DAV and a member of the York Lodge of Masons of West Kennebunk.

Surviving are his wife of 54 years; there sons, Steven R. Sr. of Lyman, Wayne E. of Arundel and Allen L. of Arundel; four daughters, Barbara MacCormack of Sanford, Laura Atkinson of Winnabow, N.C., Sandra Merrill of Westbrook and Sara Merando of Wappingers Falls, N.Y.; six sisters, Marilyn Marshall of Venice, Fla., Jennie Rennie of Saco, Betty Bradbury of East Hartford, Conn., Barbara Jones of North Stonington, Conn., Joan Waterhouse of Dayton and Norma Wentworth of Saco; 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Bibber Memorial Chapel, 67 Summer St., Kennebunk, with the Rev. Richard Leach officiating. Burial will be in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Saco.

(Portland Press Herald, Portland, ME, 23 Jan 1997, Page 5B - courtesy of Tedd Cocker)