Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sheaffer, Eleanor R. 2006 ************************************************ 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 mlnransom@chartermi.net August 17, 2010, 7:57 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, June 20, 2006 Eleanor R. Sheaffer, 71, of 907 Half Moon Drive, Stanton, passed away Wednesday, June 28, 2006 at Spectrum Health-United Memorial Campus in Greenville. She was born September 27, 1934 to Lewis Branton and Alice (Piper) Branton. On July 6, 1968 Eleanor married Fredrick E. Sheaffer at Long Lake. Mrs. Sheaffer has been a resident of Half Moon Lake since 1984, formerly of Palo. She attended Shiloh Community Church and she was retired from the Department of Social Services where she worked as a social worker. Eleanor is survived by one son Bob and Sharon Robinson of Palo; one daughter, Beth and Leon Litchfield of Ionia; one stepson Fredrick and Debbie Sheaffer of Orleans; two stepdaughters, Patricia Scheid of Saranac and Ruth Ann and Max Christensen of Grand Rapids; 13 grandchildren; 6 great grandchildren; one sister Mary Rich of Greenville and two brothers Donald Branton of Hurst, TX and Willis Branton of Alabama. Eleanor was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Fredrick E. Sheaffer on April 29, 1996. Visitation will be held on Friday, June 30th from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. at the Simpson Family Funeral Home, Sheridan. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, July 1, 2006 beginning at 11 a.m. at the Shiloh Community Church in Orleans with Pastor Kenneth Harger officiating. Interment will be at the Woodard Lake Cemetery, Orleans. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/sheaffer8138nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb