Esther Shaffer, 80, of Lake Lynn, Pa., passed away Monday, Feb. 17, 2020, at her home, with her loving family at her side. Born in Point Marion, Pa. on May 24, 1939, she was a daughter of the late John Rosnick and Anna M. (Trunzer) Rosnick Brewer.
Esther was a faithful, lifelong member of St. Huberts R.C. Church in Point Marion, where she taught catechism, was member of the Rosary Altar Society and has led the Rosary at Mass since 1983. Over the years, she was a Cub Scout Den Mother, organized St. Jude Bike-a-Thons, and was well known throughout the area for her own business, Esther Shaffer’s Cakes. She also helped along side her husband for many years in their family business, Shaffer’s State Line Service Station on Route 857.
Surviving is her husband of 61 years, Lester A. Shaffer; seven children, Roger Shaffer, Mark Shaffer, Julie Hamilton and Lois Boyd, all of North Carolina, David A. Shaffer, of Lake Lynn, Pa., Charles Shaffer, of Indiana, and Lori Shaffer Bowers, of Masontown, Pa.; 15 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; four sisters, Dr. E. Jane Martin, of Morgantown, Mary Ann Gunther, of Norwalk, Ohio, Lois Miracle and Ruth Carlson, both of Casa Grande, Ariz.; and a number of loving nieces and nephews.
Also deceased are brothers, Bill, Merle, Ralph and Chuck Rosnick, and sisters, Jessie Rosnick and Eleanor Bircher.
The family will receive friends in the Richard R. Herod Funeral Home, Point Marion, Pa., from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Thursday and from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Friday, when a Prayer Service will be held, followed by a funeral mass at 11 a.m. in St. Huberts R.C. Church, Point Marion, Pa.. Interment will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery, New Geneva.
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