Posted by Andrea Schroeder Obituary – Has Died: Andrea Schroeder, an Independence Township Republican, previous instructor, and mother of three, has passed on after a long session with an uncommon type of stomach disease. She was 57.
House Speaker Jason Wentworth, R-Farwell, affirmed her passing Friday evening, communicating sympathies to her loved ones.
“Indeed, even in the most noticeably terrible days of her ailment, Andrea Schroeder was an eager and benevolent companion who consistently put the necessities of others before her own,” Wentworth said.
“At the point when we were stressed over her wellbeing and her solace, she was more worried about aiding individuals she addressed who had called into the workplace, discovering what was happening in every one of our lives, sharing the most recent news about her kids, working with the nearby staff for whom she minded so a lot, and aiding everybody around her prevail with their needs. That is who she was as an individual right from the beginning and that is by and large how I will recall her.”
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer additionally stretched out sympathies to Schroeder’s friends and family, saying the legislator will be associated with a constant commitment to her region.
Before being chosen for the Legislature in 2018 and 2020, Schroeder served six years on the Independence Township Board of Trustees, on her school region’s Parent-Teacher Association, on school warning panels, and a few different associations.
In any case, it was during her first statehouse run that she looked into her malignancy. It was Aug. 16, 2018, just after she won the GOP essential for her locale.
Her PCP said she had linitis plastic, an uncommon and forceful malignancy of the stomach, Schroeder told the Free Press for a 2019 profile. Schroeder made a voice recording the day she found out with regards to her malignancy.
“I have the disease,” she said in the recording, made 20 minutes after she talked with her PCP. “I have an exceptionally uncommon type of stomach malignancy, and it will kill me.”
She didn’t promptly tell her family. They went to a show that evening and their cabin Up North the next day. It wasn’t until the following day, during a stroll with her better half, Mark, and their canine, that Schroeder previously shared the news.
The couple chose to tell their three kids — Grace, Maggie, and Luke — yet in any case hush up about it.
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“When such a great deal your life is public, there are portions of it that shouldn’t be intended for public utilization,” she said. “It was rarely confidential, yet it was private. There’s a distinction.”
Even though she expected solid positive criticism, Schroeder told the Free Press the possibility of continually discussing her bleak circumstance was overwhelming.
“It sounds terrible when you say it, yet … I would not like to stroll into the supermarket and have individuals saying, ‘Hello! Goodness, better believe it. How are you?’ I would not like to need to address that question the entire day, consistently when I didn’t have replies,” Schroeder said in 2019.
“You know, a ton of being a malignancy patient is perceiving how hard it is on individuals that need to help you. Also, you shoulder the obligation regarding causing them to feel OK. What’s more, with the battling and all the other things, I was similar to, ‘I simply don’t have any desire to assume on that liability — especially because… it was a helpless forecast.’ “