Vera (SHAFER) ABEL

SHAFER, ABEL, MOORE, BARTHOLOMEW, BENEDICT, HETTINGER, ANDERSON

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 10/17/2010 at 03:12:17

Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, August 10, 2000

OBITUARY - VERA (SHAFER) ABEL

Vera ABEL, 87, of Boone, Iowa, formerly of Creston, Iowa, died August 6, 2000 at the Evangelical Free Church Home in Boone.

Vera was born May 28, 1913 to Ethel MOORE and William Henry SHAFER in Cincinnati, Iowa. She graduated from Malvern high school. On July 20, 1935 she married Fred ABEL in Rockport, Missouri. To this union were born a son Ronald and a daughter Barbara.

Vera worked as a homemaker. The family lived in Diagonal, Iowa before moving to Creston in 1972. She was a member of the United Methodist Church, the Afternoon Church Circle and the Birthday Club.

She was preceded in death by her parents, William and Ethel SHAFER; husband Fred ABEL in 1990; infant son Donald; sister Anna BARTHOLOMEW; and brother-in-law Paul BENEDICT.

Vera is survived by her son Ronald (wife Vi) ABEL of Boone; daughter Barbara (husband John) HETTINGER of Missoula, Montana; brother-in-law John BARTHOLOMEW of Tabor, Iowa; sisters: Frances (husband Bud) ANDERSON of Shenandoah, Iowa, Thelma BENEDICT of Shenandoah and Dorothy Shafer of Tabor; five grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, August 9, 2000 at Coen-Beaty-Pearson Family Funeral Service in Creston with Reverend Gordon ELRICK officiating. She was laid to rest in the Graceland Cemetery [Creston, Iowa].

Memorials may be made to the United Methodist Church.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2010