This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: MargieRoopPearce Surnames: Shaffer, Hedges, Haines, Beltz, Bittner, Gaunt, Kelley, Bucher, Goldner, Baugg, Van Buskirk, Bieberich, Ehlerding, Walters, Morton, Waldo Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.adams/3066/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Decatur Daily Democrat, Adams Co, IN; Monday, 23 April 1956 Mrs. Alice Shaffer Dies Saturday Night Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Mrs. Alice M. Shaffer, 90, who resided with a daughter, Mrs. Wayne Gaunt in Union township, died at 10:15 o'clock Saturday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been seriously ill for the past six weeks. She was born in Lancaster, [Fairfield Co], O., May 3 1865, a daughter of Silas and Mary Haines-Hedges, and spent most of her life in Adams county including the last 70 in Union township. She was first married June 29, 1886 to Benjamin L. Beltz, who died Aug. 2, 1901. She then married Herman Bittner Jan. 1, 1903, and he preceded her in death Dec. 12, 1909. She was married to Levi Shaffer, who died April 8, 1937. Mrs. Shaffer attended the Calvary Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Gaunt are two other daughters, Mrs. William Kelley of Washington township and Mrs. Katherine Bucher of Decatur; six stepdaughters, Mrs. Emma Goldner and Mrs. Ollie Baugg of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Sam Van Buskirk of Monroeville, Mrs. Herman Bieberich and Mrs. Ernest Ehlerding of Decatur, and Mrs. P. C. Walters of Fort Wayne; one stepson, Charles Bittner of Decatur; 24 grandchildren; 55 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Josie Morton and Mrs. Mary Waldo of Portland, Ore. Three sons and one daughter preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Albert Straley officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Tabor cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.