OBIT: Clarence Clair SHAFFER, 1999, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  SHAFFER
  
    Memorial services for Clarence Clair Shaffer, 104, were held June
  27 in the First Presbyterian Church, DeBary, Fla. with Masonic and
  Legion rites.  Born on the family farm near Rural Valley, Pa. on Nov.
  8, 1894, he was educated at Slippery Rock, Blackburn College,
  Princeton (A.B. 1922), Columbia (MA) and Univ. of Pittsburgh.  He
  served as supervising principal of schools in Confluence, and
  Shanksville-Stoneycreek Twp. and as Assistant County Superintendent
  of Schools.  A veteran of World War I, he was recently named a
  Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the President of France.  He died
  before receiving the insignia of that honor.  He had served in France
  in the 269th Aero Squadron.  During the Second World War he was
  Secretary of the Ration Board and Supervisor of the Aircraft Warning
  Service.  He was a charter member of the American Legion, later a
  member of Post 946 Ursina.  Shaffer, always an active layman in his
  churches (Confluence Methodist, Shanksville E and R) served as
  president of the Somerset Co. Sunday School Association.  In DeBary,
  Fla. after retirement, he was an organizer of the First Presbyterian
  where he was an elder and teacher of an adult Bible class completing
  a total of 64 years continuous teaching.  He was a member of the
  Masons, IOOF and the Lions Club (charter member in Confluence). 
  Shaffer married Edith Devore who was born in 1898 in Uncas, Oklahoma
  Territory.  She preceded him in death in 1998 shortly after the 75th
  anniversary of their marriage.  They had three children, Elizabeth
  Shaffer of Dillon, S.C., Mary Lou Reichard of Woodhaven, Mich., and
  Richard Shaffer of Redondo Beach, Calif.  He also had three
  grandchildren, one great-grandson and a brand new
  great-great-granddaughter.  He is survived by one sister 102 years
  old Vernye Barrett of Falls Church, Va.
  
  Daily American, July 14, 1999
  
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