Friday, December 6, 2024

Dorchester's Tom Scheffert Passes At 70

Thomas Leroy Scheffert ("Big Tom"), 70, left this world Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024 in his
home in Dorchester after a 24-year battle with congestive heart failure. He was telling his wife what to do right to the end.

He is survived by his loving wife and companion of 32 years, Patricia (Skutchan) Morfeld, his loving sister, Gayle (Scheffert) Beals, and her husband, Patrick of Lincoln, his niece Kimberly (Beals) Luzum, her children Chandler and Kaden Lukert and Emma Kasl, great-grand nieces Aleah and Emerson, nephew Ryan Beals and his wife Kara, and their son Charlie of Omaha, his aunts Jane Scheffert and Loretta Pape, as well as numerous cousins, his stepsons, Shon Morfeld and girlfriend Tonia Sutliff of Tempe, AZ, and Michael Morfeld and children of Chandler, AZ.

He was preceded in death by his father, Glen “Jack” Scheffert and his mother, Darlene (Rosekrans) Scheffert, his grandparents, several uncles, aunts and cousins.

Tom was born June 18, 1954 in Lincoln and lived by Centerville until his parents moved to the farm south of Dorchester in 1963. After graduation in 1972, he worked at the Crete Mills and the Dorchester Coop for many years and Peterson Vise-Grip in Dewitt for eight years. He owned and operated a salvage yard in Dorchester for four years. He owned and operated a semi for 20 years. In 2020, he had to retire to town as he could no longer maintain the farmyard due to his health.

He always said he loved the life he lived. He was a life-long farmer and enjoyed visiting with friends about farming and learning about farming in Arizona. For the last seven winters, Tom and Patricia snow-birded in Arizona, buying a place near Casa Grande, AZ.

Tom loved dirt track racing. He owned and drove stock cars and IMCA modifieds, starting in 1976 until after 2001. He made a multitude of friends over the years, both in racing and everywhere he went.

He will be greatly missed by everyone he touched in his life.

Tom’s ashes will be spread on the farm he loved. There will be no service but a celebration of life will be held at a later date in Dorchester.

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