Obit of Shaffer, Vera L (s160) - Pottawatomie County OK

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Vera L. Shaffer, 92, of Amarillo died Monday, Feb. 11, 2002.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors Bell
Avenue Chapel, 5400 S. Bell St., with Dr. Chester O'Brien of First Baptist
Church officiating. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery.

Mrs. Shaffer was born to George and Lula Hardwick on Sept. 16, 1909, in
Calvin, Okla. She married Milton F. Shaffer on Dec. 18, 1929, in Seminole,
Okla. They moved to Amarillo in 1937.

She attended Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Okla., where she
earned a bachelor of arts degree and West Texas State University where she
earned a master of education degree.

She was an elementary school teacher for 26 years and was listed in Who's
Who in Texas Education. She was active in First Baptist Church of Amarillo,
National Education Association and Texas State Teachers Association. She
was past president of Amarillo Garden Club and Kappa Kappa Iota sorority.

Pallbearers include Mark Shaffer, Stephen Shaffer, Jim Shaffer, Roger
Chastain, Paul Escamilla and Raymond Foster.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Sally Ruth Shaffer Miller, in 1982;
her husband in 1988; her parents; two brothers, Brian Hardwick and Leon
Hardwick; and two sisters, Bertie Hardwick Chastain and Lilian Hardwick
Collier.

Survivors include a son, Gerry M. Shaffer and wife, Janis, of Dallas; three
grandsons, Mark Shaffer and wife, Loretta, of Eros, La., Stephen Shaffer and
wife, Rebecca, of Downsville, La., and Jim Shaffer and wife, Anne, of Tulsa,
Okla.; a stepgranddaughter, Pamela Helgren of Dallas; and five
great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be to Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice of Amarillo;
or Boys Ranch.

Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 15, 2002
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