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Show Barth Shaffer dies in St. George Barth Cannon Shaffer, St. George, died Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1981 at the Dixie Medical Center. Born January 19, 1897, in Vernal to Bishop James M. and Lydia M. Rolfe Shaffer, he was the seventh of 12 children. He married Jennie M. Struble Feb. 13, 1942, in the Mesa LDS Temple. He was a veteran of World War I, serving in the infantry. Mr. Shaffer graduated from the Uintah Academy in 1916, and filled an LDS fulltime mission in the Kentucky Mission. Mr. Shaffer worked as a custodian, farmer, sheepherder, gilsonite miner, plasterer and livestock feed worker. Upon retirement he and his wife became workers in the Los Angeles Temple until 1976 when they decided to continue their work in St. George. He is survived by his wife, three sons, Warren L., Agoura, Calif.; Larry B., Anchorage, Alaska and Ronald Lee, Downey, Calif. ; one brother, Nervell W. Shaffer, Evansville, Wyo.; two sisters, Mrs. V. Wayne tCorilla) Bybee, Salt Lake City and Pearl Shaffer, Vernal; 11 grandchildren and many nephews and nieces. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m., Oct." 2 in the St. George 5th and 6th Ward with burial in the St. George City Cemetery. |
