OBIT: Fred E. SHAFFER, 1974, Sipesville, Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed and proofread by Sally Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ SHAFFER Fred E. Shaffer, 55, of Sipesville, died Aug. 18, 1974, in Somerset Community Hospital. Born Dec. 1, 1918, in Hooversville, a son of the late Homer and Jennie (Gindlesperger) Shaffer. Preceded in death by three brothers, Robert, Paul and an infant brother. Survived by his widow, the former Myra Shaffer, two sons: Gregory and Douglas, both at home. These brothers and sisters: Roy, Mrs. Kyle (Verna) Boyer, and Donald, all of Hooversville; John of Stoystown RD 1; Mrs. Wade (Lois) Litzinger of Johnstown; Mrs. Shimer (Helen) Darr of Washington, Pa.; Carl (Bud) of Canton, Ohio; and Mrs. Kenneth (Myrtle) Zimmerman of Sipesville. He was a member of Grace Lutheran Church of Stoystown and Sipesville Volunteer Fire Department. Friends are being received in the Richard E. Hauger Funeral Home where services will be conducted Thursday at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. Herbert G. Hohman officiating. interment, Stoystown IOOF Cemetery. Somerset American, August 21, 1974 [S0903]