Paul L. Schiffner

©Enid News and Eagle

01-31-2008

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

©Glenn

The funeral for Paul L. Schiffner, 74, of Alva, will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Alva Bible Baptist Church. The Rev. John Clapp will officiate. Burial will be in Short Springs Cemetery. Arrangements are by Wharton Funeral Chapel, Alva.

He was born March 25, 1933, on a farm east of Alva to Samuel John and Effie May Rush Schiffner and died Tuesday, Jan. 29, at his home in Alva.

He attended Short Springs rural grade school while helping his father on the farm. He graduated from Cherokee High School in 1951.

He married Helen Faith Eckels Nov. 2, 1952, in Alva, where they lived and farmed. They custom harvested for 38 years from Texas to Canada. He also worked for Rick Caruthers Construction Co. They moved to Beeler, Kan., in 1970 and returned to Alva in 1986, where he worked for Woods County District 1 in 1991. He attended Alva Bible Baptist Church.

Surviving are his wife, Helen, of the home; one daughter, Karen Young of Stockton, Mo.; two sons, Danny of Fort Worth, Texas, and Lyndel of Liberal, Kan.; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by three sisters and one great-grandson.

Memorials may be made in his memory to Alva Public School Foundation.

Condolences may be made online at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com.

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