1. | Raymond Mitchell Shafer was born on 11 Mar 1900 in Admire, Lyon, Kansas, United States (son of Jeffery Shafer and Cory Oglesby); died on 15 Dec 1987 in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma, United States. Notes:
1903 the family moved to Faulkner community where he attended Prairie School. As a young man he returned to Kansas to work in the oil fields near Eldorado, Kansas. Married he farmed northwest of Alva until moving into Alva, Oklahoma in 1929. He worded as a mechanic then for the street department and was elected street commissioner in 1937. Ten years later he resigned to work for Cities Service Pipeline and was transferred to Knob Noster, Missouri in 1950. After his retirement in 1965 they returned to Alva, Oklahoma. Grave location A-037-01.
Facts about this person:
Burial December 18, 1987
Alva, Cemetery Woods County Oklahoma
Raymond married Beulah Estella Arndt on 18 Sep 1923 in Medicine Lodge, Barber, Kansas, United States. Beulah (daughter of Robert Perry Arndt and Myrtle Louella Cummins) was born on 11 Dec 1903 in Woods, Oklahoma, United States; died on 26 Jul 1993 in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- Velma Rae Shafer
- Jessie Willard Shafer was born on 7 Oct 1925 in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma, United States; died on 1 Apr 1961 in Knob Noster, Johnson, Missouri, United States.
- Verla Marie Shafer was born on 9 Sep 1927 in Woods, Oklahoma, United States; died on 11 Oct 2002 in Ada, Pontotoc, Oklahoma, United States.
- Raymond Junior Shafer
- Johnny Edward Shafer was born on 4 Jul 1932 in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma, United States; died on 20 Apr 1936 in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma, United States.
- Gerald Alfred Shafer
- Cecil Dean Shafer
- Allen Dale Shafer
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