SHAFER, Samuel 1894 - 1981

SHAFER, BERG, BURGUS

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:22:53

"The Fairfield (Ia.) Ledger"
Monday, October 19, 1981
Page 14, Columns 1 and 2

Sam SHAFER dies at 86

Samuel SHAFER, 86, lifelong resident of Jefferson County, died at 12:45 p.m. Sunday at University Hospitals in Iowa City (note: in Johnson Co., IA).

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the First Lutheran Church with the Rev. Keith Lingwall Officiating. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery.

Family visitation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Raymond Funeral Home.

During his many years as a farmer he had a keen interest in soil Conservation. He was one of the first cooperators with the Jefferson County Soil Conservation District, he was an officer in the Farmers Union and served as a director in rural school system.

Samuel SHAFER was born Dec. 22, 1894, in Buchanan Township. He was the son of Jacob and Henrietta BERG SHAFER. He attended rural school at Richwood Community school and farmed until his retirement. He was a veteran of World War I.

The family home is on Route 2. For the past year he had been a patient at Pleasant Manor in Mount Pleasant.

His marriage to Marie L. BURGUS took place Dec. 14, 1919, at Burlington. She survives.

Other survivors include two sons, Jacob B. SHAFER, Mount Pleasant, and Wesley J. SHAFER, Fairfield; five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren; and a brother Frank SHAFER, Fairfield.

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Note: Sam is buried in Lot 3rd.223 at Evergreen Cemetery; wife Marie died in 1984 and is buried with him.