NAPPANEE - Verena E. Shafer, 93, formerly of Nappanee and Wakarusa, died at 1:07 a.m. Feb. 4, 2009, at Bremen Health Care.
She was born Dec. 24, 1915, in Bourbon, to Adam and Lurena Miller Lemler. She married Allen Shafer, who died Dec. 16, 1995.
A lifetime area resident, she was a housewife and worked at CTS in Elkhart and for the Mutschler Family in Nappanee. She was a member of the Church of the Brethren in Bremen.
She was preceded in death by a brother and two sisters.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Thompson-Lengacher and Yoder Funeral Home, Nappanee. Cremation will take place. Inurnment will be at Sandy Ridge Cemetery, Bourbon Township.
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Memorials to the donor's choice or the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care.
