OBIT: Dessa May (SHAW) REFFNER, 1933, McKee, Blair County, PA

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MRS. DESSA MAY REFFNER

Wife of Lloyd M. Reffner, died suddenly at her home at McKee Wednesday 
afternoon at 1.40 o'clock, death being attributed to heart trouble. She 
had not been ill and was about her household duties as usual during the 
forenoon and at noon. Mrs. Reffner was a daughter of James A. and 
Rebecca Shaw and was born near Williamsburg on Feb. 5, 1894, moving to 
McKee with her parents later, where she resided all her life. She was 
united in marriage with Mr. Reffner on April 3, 1932, who survives, 
with one son, Roy Butler, by a former marriage. She is also survived by 
her parents and these brothers and sisters: Mrs. Jennie Feather, Harry 
and Orville Shaw, all of McKee; Mrs. Celia Helsel of Roaring Spring and 
Mrs. Martha Hileman of Altoona. She was a member of the McKee Methodist 
church, where funeral services will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 
2.30 o'clock, in charge of Rev. L. B. Barton of Hastings, former pastor 
of the McKee church. Interment will be made in the Greenlawn cemetery 
at Roaring Spring.

Funeral Notice.

Funeral services for Mrs. Dessa May Reffner, who died suddenly at her 
home in McKee Wednesday afternoon, will be held in the Trinity 
Methodist church at Roaring Spring on Saturday afternoon at 2.30 
o'clock, in charge of her former pastor, Rev. L. B. Barton of Hastings. 
Interment will be made in Greenlawn cemetery, Roaring Spring.

Altoona Mirror, Friday, 16 June 1933, p. 28, col. 1 & p. 28 col. 2