OBIT: Beatrice SHAFFER, 1919, native of Bedford County, PA

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MISS BEATRICE SHAFFER.

  Miss Beatrice Hazel Shaffer, daughter of Mrs. Maude Shaffer of near 
Everett, Bedford county, died yesterday afternoon at 4.10 o'clock at the home 
of John T. Simmons on North Penn street [Hollidaysburg], where she had been a 
resident for some months, Mrs. Simmons being her aunt.  Her death was due to 
an attack of Spanish influenza, with which dread disease she had been a 
sufferer for one week.  Deceased was born near Everett on July 30, 1901, and 
graduated from the Everett schools last year.  She prepared herself to teach 
school, but was too young to take up that vocation, being required to wait 
for a year before being able to do so.  Thus she came to Hollidaysburg and 
secured employment at Wright's laundry on North Montgomery street, residing 
at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Simmons.  The young girl was possessed of a 
kindly disposition and quickly made many warm friends here, who will be 
greatly pained to learn of her untimely demise.  Her father is dead, but she 
is survived by her mother, three brothers and two sisters, as follows: Percy, 
Bernard and Joseph, Geynell and Verna.  Short services will be held at the 
Simmons home this evening at 7:30 o'clock.  The body will be shipped by 
Funeral Director T. B. McFarland on Sunday morning on the Bedford train to 
Bedford county, where services will be held at Providence church, four miles 
from Everett, and interment made.

Altoona Tribune, Saturday, February 15, 1919