Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Schaffer, Ernest Edward April 6, 1949 ************************************************ 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: Nan Wheaton wheaton1624@yahoo.com December 26, 2020, 8:41 am Sentinel-Std. - Thursday, April 7, 1949 Ernest Edward Schaffer, 74, of Saginaw, formerly of Ionia, died Wednesday night in St. Luke hospital in Saginaw. He was born in Detroit: July 12, 1874, and was employed for 39 years by the Pere Marquette railroad in Saginaw and Ionia. He moved from Ionia to Saginaw in 1932. On July 173, 1901, he married Emilie Speckin. He was a member of the Trinity Lutheran church of Saginaw, and of the L.F.A. of the church in Saginaw. Surviving are the wife, a son, Ewald of Birmingham; a daughter, Mrs. Peter Schneider, of Saginaw; two grandchildren, George Schneider of Saginaw and Virginia Schaffer of Birmingham; a brother, Benjamin Schaffer, of Detroit. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at the Reitz funeral home, 1026 East Genesee avenue, Saginaw. The Rev. August F. Bernthal will officiate. Services will also be conducted at the Boynton funeral home in Ionia at 2 p.m. Saturday. Interment will be in Highland Park cemetery. Additional Comments: Age: 74 Funeral: Saturday, 9 April 1949 Highland Park cemetery #4-20 Son of Jacob Friedrich Schaffer & Wilhelmina (Schultz) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/schaffer39167nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb