SHAFFER, Ada Smail

SHAFFER, SMAIL, BUTTS, DAVIS, SHEPHERD, YOUNG

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 8/23/2013 at 10:09:56

MRS. ADA SHAFFER DIES AT 74 YEARS

Funeral services for Mrs. Ada Shaffer, 74, Bell Street, who passed away at the Mercy hospital in Mason City Sunday morning were held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 from Williams funeral home. The Rev. J. B. Calhoun, pastor of the Congregational church , conducted the rites and burial was made in the Mt. Vernon cemetery.

Pallbearers were Tom and Jim Barlow, Dave Enabnit, Richard Skinner, and Ellis and Harry Foster. Mrs. R. A. Monaghen, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Harry Mason, sang “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere” and “The Old Rugged Cross.” Mrs. Enabnit and Mrs. Harry Foster arranged the flowers.

Ada Smail. Daughter of Melinda and David Smail, was born April 15, 1866 at Plattville, Wis. She lived there for about thirty years and then moved to a farm near Clear Lake. On Oct. 7, 1889 she was married to John Shaffer in Mason City. She has lived in and around Clear Lake until the time of her death. Mr. Shaffer passed away March 29, 1917 and a daughter, Eva, died in 1907 when she was two years old. Mrs. Shaffer has been suffering from asthma, but was only seriously ill for several hours.

She is survived by her seven children, Walter, of Washington, D.C.; Frank, Fred, and Bill Shaffer, Mrs. Chas. Smith, Mrs. Art Butts and Mrs. Leonard Davis, all of Clear Lake. Also two sisters and two brothers, a twin sister, Mrs. Amy Shephard of Mason City, Mrs. Ida Young of Blanchardville, Wis.; Riley Smail of Madison, Wis.; and Leo Smail of Plattville, Wis. She had eleven grandchildren.

Those from a distance attending the funeral were Walter Shaffer, Washington, Mrs. Shephard, and Leon Smail and a number of friends and relatives from Plymouth and Mason City.

NOTE – Mrs. Ada Smail Shaffer died February 16, 1941.