May 23, 1913 — July 28, 2008

Former Corvallis High School teacher Daphne Schainck, 95, died July 28 in Davis, Calif. She was born May 23, 1913, in Racine, Wis., to Daphne Bateman Wyman and Chester Arthur Wyman.

Her mother and an infant sister died during the 1919 flu epidemic. She was preceded in death by her stepmother, Maude May Schafer Wyman; her daughter, Susan Elizabeth Coleman; and her sister, Marion Eleanor Willcox.

After time as a youth in Salt Lake City and Sacramento, Calif., she spent most of her life in Oregon, where she graduated from Albany High School. She was a 1935 graduate of Oregon State College, and received her master’s degree in 1953 from the Oregon College of Education in Monmouth. She married Henry Joseph Schainck in 1940; they were divorced in 1944.

Daphne taught at high schools in Prineville, Lafayette, Lebanon, Corvallis and Elmira. Later, she served as recreation director for Oregon Fairview Home for the mentally and physically handicapped until she retired in 1975. During 16 years at Fairview, she developed an innovative curriculum that proved successful at teaching social and other skills that earlier educators thought could not be learned by the developmentally disabled.

She was active in the Order of Pythian Sisters for more than 65 years, until she moved to Davis, Calif., in 2007, and was Past Grand Chief and Past Supreme Representative for Oregon. She also was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star for 53 years.

Daphne is survived by her son Henry Wyman and his wife, Christie, of Davis, Calif.; her grandchildren Bryan Wyman and his wife, Shelly Purviance, of Santa Clara, Calif.; Michael Wyman, his wife, Loran, and their children Hanah, William and Elise of Davis, Calif.; Catherine Smith and her husband, Jonus, and their daughter Ivy of Chico, Calif.; James Coleman of Salem, Cynthia Coleman and her family; Joshua, Graycen and Aspyn Garvin, of Tigard; her nieces Judith Bravo of Woodburn, Diane Swan of Salem and Kathy Willcox of Woodburn; and her nephew Lee Willcox of Oklahoma.

Wiscombe’s Funeral Chapel, in Davis is handling arrangements. No services will be held. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Corvallis Friends of the Library.