Phyllis Schneck was 79 when she was killed on January 8, 2011, at a Safeway supermarket in Casas Adobes, Arizona. She had gone to the store that morning hoping to meet Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at a Congress on Your Corner event and was waiting to speak with the congresswoman when a gunman opened fire, discharging 31 shots. Schneck was among six people who died that day; the attacker, Jared Lee Loughner, was taken into custody at the scene.

A former New Jersey resident, Schneck and her late husband had moved to Arizona about a decade earlier. Friends and family remembered her as generous and active: a skilled quilter and needlepoint artist who donated pieces to her Presbyterian church to raise money for food banks and children’s charities, and someone who shared homemade treats with neighbors. She is survived by three children, seven grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter.