OBIT: Burgess P. SHAFFER, 1973, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  SHAFFER
  
  Burgess P. Shaffer, 67, of 131 Violet St., Johnstown, died May 17 at
  Memorial Hospital, Johnstown.  He was born May 10, 1906, in Somerset,
  the son of Austin D. and Stella Burgess Shaffer.  He was preceded in
  death by his father.  He is survived by his mother of Somerset; his
  widow, the former Mildred I. Stevanus; two children, Rodney of
  Baltimore, Md., and Beverly, wife of Frank Popyk of Detroit, Mich.;
  three grandchildren, Stanley, Scott and Edward Popyk; a brother, the
  Rev. Glen C. Shaffer of Westerville, Ohio; and three nephews.  He was
  a member of First United Methodist Church where he was assistant lay
  leader and teacher of King's Daughters Sunday School Class.  He was a
  retired employee of Pennsylvania Electric Company.  Funeral service at 1 p.m.
  today in John P. Henderson Funeral Home, Johnstown, conducted by the Rev. Max
  M. Houser and the Rev. E. A. R. Schultz.  Interment in Husband Cemetery,
  Somerset.

  Daily American, 19 May 1973
  
  
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