Obit of Schaffner, John A - Cimarron County, Oklahoma

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John A. Schaffner

CAMPO, Colo. - John A. Schaffner, 85, died Thursday, April 30, 1998.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday (MST) in El Campo Baptist Church 
with the Rev. Leon Cummings and Bob Wood officiating. Burial will be 
in Campo Cemetery by Cimarron Mortuary of Boise City, Okla.

Mr. Schaffner was born in Moorewood, Okla., and moved to Baca County 
in 1916. He farmed there until 1937. He moved to Paonia, Colo., then 
returned to Campo in 1937 where he was employed at a gas station and 
cafe until it was sold in 1960. He retired from farming and ranching 
in 1983. For the next 12 years, he was employed by the U.S. Forest 
Service.

Mr. Schaffner was a member of the Campo Baptist Church where he 
served as deacon and trustee. He served on the Campo School Board and 
was Campo fire chief.

He married Katherine Ogle in 1937 at the Ogle farm. She died in July. 
He also was preceded in death by a great-grandson.

Survivors include two daughters, Zoretta Ownby of Campo and Donna 
Kester of Reno, Nev.; a son, Leroy Schaffner of Dalhart, Texas; two 
sisters, Bertha Gilman of Salem, Ore., and Ester Stebritz of 
Hotchkill, Colo.; 10 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and a 
great grandchild.

The family request memorials be to the Alzheimer's Unit of S.E. 
Colorado Hospital in Springfield, Colo., which may be left in care of 
the mortuary.

Amarillo Globe News - 3 May 1998
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