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Submitted: 2/21/16 • Approved: 2/21/16 • Last Updated: 3/27/18 • R787694-G787693-S3
July 10, 1898 - Sept 13, 1978
Reva was the daughter of Jacob and Eva Shafer. She first married Luther Hays and they moved to South Dakota. They were the parents of three children, Perry, Uda, and Norman. After their son Norman's death, Luther went missing for several years so she divorced him. She then married Delbert Mae Lowe in the Kirksville area, and they were the parents of a son, Delbert Dwain Lowe, and then they also divorced. Reva put herself through nursing school by cooking for the Travelers Hotel in Kirksville. She moved to San Francisco, California in the early 1940's and was a nurse for the health department there. In the early 1960's she returned to Missouri, and lived near her youngest son in Brookfield, Missouri. She was an avid gardener, and shared that love and the fruits of her labor with anyone who would come for a visit. She was a wonderful chef, and her specialties were rosemary roasted chicken, caramel sticky buns and homemade donuts made with sherry wine. She shared her life on the little farm on the outskirts of Brookfield with an intelligent and loving terrier, Tootsie.
Parents:
Jacob David Shafer (1872 - 1952)
Eva Celestice McPhetridge Shafer (1872 - 1957)
Spouses:
Delbert Mae Lowe (1901 - 1945)
Luther R Hays (1889 - 1969)
Photo contributed by Larry and Susan Olson lolson60@cableone.net
Contributed on 2/21/16 by hawkinsdonna48
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