Elisabeth Schroder

Elisabeth "Lisa" Schroder (neé Engel) was a German-American woman, mother and grandmother in the Schroder family. She was the mother to Tobinald and Austin Schroder. She eventually died from lung cancer, having been battling it for approximately 2 years. After her death, Rex Schroder was left alone on the family farm for about 5 years, until Austin showed Rex the newly born Carson.

Pre-apocalypse
Elisabeth Engel was born in 1964 somewhere outside Kansas. However, during the early 1970s, she relocated with her family to Wichita, Kansas where she remained for the majority of her life. She had an older brother named Tobin Donald Engel who died sometime during this move due to smallpox, his death changed Elisabeth's outlook on life and forced her to mature at a young age.

At a young age, Elisabeth would help her mother with chores around the house, even volunteering at the hospital with her mother throughout her high school-college years. Elisabeth eventually was taught how to be a nurse and started her career as a hospital nurse shortly after leaving high school. During this time, Elisabeth became romantically involved with Rex Schroder, much to both of their parent's approval. She kept her role as a nurse until she was 23, when she married Rex. As Rex was the heir inheritor of the farm, Rex and Elisabeth moved into the farmhouse and renovated/modernized the building.

Her parents both died sometime during the late 80s-early 90s, both dying at differing times. Their cause of deaths remain unknown. Being the last known member of the Engel family, Elisabeth and Rex both produced two children; Tobinald (named after Elisabeth's brother) and Austin Schroder, in 1989 and 1991 respectively. At this time, Elisabeth started recording Rex and Elisabeth's life from her pregnancy with Tobin all the way to about 2010.