OBIT: Michael Shoff, 1928, Windsor, York County, PA

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Delayed for several days because of the snow-drifted roads, the funeral of 
Michael Shoff, Civil war veteran, who died last Thursday at the home of Mr. and 
Mrs. Emory Olewiler, here, was held this morning.  The funeral was to have been 
held Monday, but had been postponed owing to the blizzard.  Services at the 
house at 9 o'clock were conducted by Rev. R. F. Stock, pastor of the Evangelical 
church.  After the services at the house, the funeral cortege proceeded to St. 
Luke's Lutheran church, near Conrad, Chanceford township, in sleighs.  Seven 
sleighs were used to convey the corpse and mourners to the church.  At places 
where the drifts were too deep to get through, the procession detoured through 
fields.  Rev. Glen Hafer, pastor at St. Luke's church, conducted the services 
there, after which the body was interred in the cemetery adjoining the edifice.  
The pallbearers were six grandsons, as follow:  George Hake, Walter Craley, 
Charles Cooper, Ira Kimmons, Ammon Shoff and Emory Gipe.  It required two hours 
for the funeral procession to reach the church, a distance of about seven miles.   
The return trip also took two hours.  Funeral Director Furnace B. Olewiler, Red 
Lion, was in charge of the funeral.

The Gazette And Daily  Thursday, February 03, 1928