Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Schafer, Albert 1955 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Ransom mransom311@gmail.com August 17, 2014, 7:57 pm The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, February 10, 1955 Funeral services for Albert Schafer, 86, of Pewamo, who died Saturday evening at 8:10 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John J. Fox, were held Tuesday morning at St. Joseph’s church. Requiem high mass was sung at 9 o’clock by the Rev. Fr. Joseph Henige. Interment was at the St. Joseph’s cemetery in Pewamo. Mr. Schafer was born July 20, 1868, in Canada and at the age of ten moved with his family to Fowler and lived in that vicinity all his life. October 13, 1898 he was married to the former Amelia Roll of Westphalia who preceded him in death in August of 1924. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Irene Fox, Mrs. Hildegarde Schafer and Mrs. Vera Cook all of Pewamo; 14 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Lamena Brown of Detroit and one brother, Arnold Schafer, of Alma. A son, Norbert, died in 1936 and three other children died in infancy. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/schafer26745nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb