Geneva Merle "Eva" (Ray) Shaffer (1894-1924)

RAY, SHAFFER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal March 17, 1824 (page 3)

OBITUARY OF MRS. SHAFFER.

Funeral services for the late Mrs. Orson Shaffer, who died at the family home in Maxwell Tuesday, March 11, were held from the Methodist church at Maxwell Thursday afternoon at 2:00, after which interment was in the Evergreen cemetery, Iowa Center, by the side of her mother who passed away a couple of years ago. Rev. Smith, her pastor, was in charge of the services the following obituary was read by her pastor.

Geneva Merle Ray, only child of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ray, was born in Indian Creek township, Story county, Iowa, April 27, 1894, and died at her home in Maxwell, Iowa, March 11, 1924, in the thirtieth year of her age. In early girlhood Eva gave her heart to God and her hand in fellowship with the Evangelical church at Iowa Center, Iowa, from which her membership was transferred to the M. E. church in Maxwell, Iowa, by Rev. H. D. Henry, September 17, 1919. In this church she continued her membership until her decease. On October 5, 1922, Eva was united in marriage with Orson Shaffer of Nevada, in which union she was blessed and mad happy. On Tuesday, March 11, God gave her a beautiful babe, but it was not of this world and so she gathered it in her arms and took it back to the loving Shepherd who said, "Suffer them to come, for of such is the kingdom of Heaven." Eva's friends were legion. To know her was to admire her splendid qualities and rejoice in her fellowship. She was in her beautiful spirit a sunbeam, in her home among her friends, in society, in the church. She had a voice sweet in song and was greatly appreciated in the choir of her church, of which she was a member and to which she contributed much.

There is something strangely, and yet beautifully pathetic that she could accompany her babe to God, surrounded as she was by friends, and loving as she did her husband and father, and yet her heart would have been so lonely without her beautiful babe.

Eva's mother had preceeded her by other side must have been most joy two years, and the welcome on the ous. Last Tuesday morning with a smile and good bye she laid down to sleep and awoke in Heaven.

To the bereave husband, and father, all hearts yield their deepest sympathy and trust that in that brighter day they may find these whom they have loved so well and "lost a while."