Obit of Shaffer, Betty Hafen - Comanche County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 17 Feb 2008 Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park--Salt Lake City UT Shaffer, Betty Hafen Betty Hafen Shaffer A Lovely Lady 12/22/18 ~ 06/25/07 Dearest Sweetheart, Today would have been your 89th Birthday. I would give up everything I own. Give up my life, my heart, my home, just to have you back again. Just to touch you once again. We miss you terribly. All our love, Bob, Valerie, and Leslie Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on 12/22/2007. ========= Shaffer, Betty Hafen Betty Hafen Shaffer "A Lovely Lady" Betty Hafen Shaffer, age 88 died June 25, 2007 in Salt Lake City. She was born December 22, 1918 in Provo, Utah to Parley P. and Edith Buckley Hafen. She was the granddaughter of John Hafen, the artist. He was the founder of the Art Barn in Springville. Betty was also an artist in painting, sculpture and ceramics. Betty attended Maesur School in Provo until she was 13 when the family moved to Salt Lake City in the middle of the Great Depression. Here, she attended East High School from which she graduated. She moved on to the University of Utah but did not continue because she wanted to take flying lessons. She learned to fly and thought she would join the WAAFs, the female organization which ferried war planes to Air Corps bases in the United States after the United States entered World War II. However, she was with some friends out at Black Rock when a small plane flew over the crowd and crashed in the Great Salt Lake, killing the pilot. This convinced her not to continue her flying career; however she helped the war effort by working in the Post Exchange at the Kearns Army Base. After the war ended, Betty moved to Washington D.C. While there, she visited her cousin, Donna Mae Graham at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. At the Officers Club the two of them accidentally met Major Robert D. Shaffer, USMC. He thought that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. They were engaged in three weeks and married in three months on September 13, 1947 in the Protestant Chapel at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. During her husband's military career, she lived in many locations, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and Norfolk, Virginia. After her husband retired from the Marine Corps, the family moved to Salt Lake City where they lived until her death. She loved to play golf, at which she was good and also to bowl in a Seniors League at the Town and Country Bowl. Betty is survived by her husband, Robert D. Shaffer; daughters Valerie (Richard) Christiansen and Leslie (Jaime) Baltodando; six grandchildren and nine great- grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, brother, Gilbert Hafen and sister, Fay Burke. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, June 30, 2007 at Wasatch Lawn Mortuary chapel, 3401 Highland Dr. where friends may call Friday 7:00-8:30 p.m. and Saturday one hour prior to services. In lieu of flowers, Betty would appreciate donations to the Nation Foundation for the Blind. Interment will be at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park. Published in the Salt Lake Tribune from 6/27/2007 - 6/29/2007. ========= Shaffer, Betty Hafen Betty Hafen Shaffer "A Lovely Lady" Betty Hafen Shaffer, age 88 died June 25, 2007 in Salt Lake City. She was born December 22, 1918 in Provo, Utah to Parley P. and Edith Buckley Hafen. She was the granddaughter of John Hafen, the artist. He was the founder of the Art Barn in Springville. Betty was also an artist in painting, sculpture and ceramics. Betty attended Maesur School in Provo until she was 13 when the family moved to Salt Lake City in the middle of the Great Depression. Here, she attended East High School from which she graduated. She moved on to the University of Utah but did not continue because she wanted to take flying lessons. She learned to fly and thought she would join the WAAFs, the female organization which ferried war planes to Air Corps bases in the United States after the United States entered World War II. However, she was with some friends out at Black Rock when a small plane flew over the crowd and crashed in the Great Salt Lake, killing the pilot. This convinced her not to continue her flying career; however she helped the war effort by working in the Post Exchange at the Kearns Army Base. After the war ended, Betty moved to Washington D.C. While there, she visited her cousin, Donna Mae Graham at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. At the Officers Club the two of them accidentally met Major Robert D. Shaffer, USMC. He thought that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. They were engaged in three weeks and married in three months on September 13, 1947 in the Protestant Chapel at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. During her husband's military career, she lived in many locations, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and Norfolk, Virginia. After her husband retired from the Marine Corps, the family moved to Salt Lake City where they lived until her death. She loved to play golf, at which she was good and also to bowl in a Seniors League at the Town and Country Bowl. Betty is survived by her husband, Robert D. Shaffer; daughters Valerie (Richard) Christiansen and Leslie (Jaime) Baltodando; six grandchildren and nine great- grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, brother, Gilbert Hafen and sister, Fay Burke. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, June 30, 2007 at Wasatch Lawn Mortuary chapel, 3401 Highland Dr. where friends may call Friday 7:00-8:30 p.m. and Saturday one hour prior to services. In lieu of flowers, Betty would appreciate donations to the Nation Foundation for the Blind. Interment will be at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park. Published in the Deseret News from 6/27/2007 - 6/29/2007. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html