SHAFER, R. Keith 1926 - 2017
SHAFER, CLAPP, SUMMERS
Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 1/29/2017 at 13:14:35
"The Fairfield Ledger"
Monday, January 23, 2017
Page 3R. Keith SHAFER
R. Keith SHAFER, 90, of Fairfield, died Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, at Jefferson County Health Center in Fairfield.
A memorial service will be Feb. 2 at First United Methodist Church in Fairfield.
Behner Funeral Home & Crematory Inc. in Fairfield is assisting with arrangements.
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"The Fairfield Ledger"
Monday, January 30, 2017
Page 3R. Keith SHAFER
R. Keith SHAFER, 90, of Fairfield, died Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, at Jefferson County Health Center in Fairfield.
A memorial service will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church in Fairfield, with the Rev. Todd Holman officiating. Burial will be in Bethesda Cemetery, east of Fairfield.
Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Wednesday at Behner Funeral Home in Fairfield.
Memorials can be made to: Fairfield Senior Citizen Center, Maasdam Barns Preservation, Carnegie Museum Foundation, or Bonnifield Log House Restoration in the care of Carnegie Museum Foundation. Cards and memorials can be sent to: The Shafer Family, 216D Southgate Circie, Fairfield 52556.
Mr. SHAFER was born March 6, 1926, the son of Glenn Emerson and Florence Margaret CLAPP SHAFER. He married Mary Evalyn SUMMERS Sept. 26, 1948, at Pleasant Grove Methodist Church, north of Fairfield. She died Jan. 22, 2011.
Mr. SHAFER graduated from Fairfield High School in 1943.
He served in the U.S. Army in the occupation of Korea at the close of World War II. In 2015, he went on an Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.
He was a farmer and operated a sawmill.
In 1963, he participated in a People to People goodwill agricultural tour of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Over the course of his life, he was named Iowa Conservation Man of the Year and Tree Farmer of the Year.
He served as a Jefferson County supervisor from 1988 through 1996. He served on the Jefferson County Republican Central Committee, Farm Bureau and Iowa United Methodist Hunger Task Force.
He was an avid reader, hunter and lover of the outdoors. He was a member of First United Methodist Church and the Howard Johnson Coffee Club.
Survivors include: four sons, Mark SHAFER with Susan of Fairfield, Herbert SHAFER with Jan of Bentonsport, Lynn SHAFER with Leslie Brown of New Gloucester, Maine, and Allen SHAFER with Alison of Quincy, Illinois; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and one brother, Floyd SHAFER of Fairfield.
In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by his parents.
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