Volume 15 , Issue 28

NW Okie's Corner

It has been over a year or so since I worked on the Eagle wood carving I started back then. I never did finish it. My Texas sister asked me about it when we were visiting her in Houston, Texas.

Well! I finally dug out my carving tools and chisels and began work on it. and refining, redoing parts of it. I'm putting a portrait of individual on the other side of the the pine log. When I get it to the stage of revealing the work being done I will post it on Google-plus and/or Facebook.

Sometimes I find when doing my sculpturing, I tend to get so engrossed in my art piece that I zone-out everything around me, and forget about the time. What seems like an hour of work is really five or six hours.

Remembering AnnaBelle Shafer

Many Northwest Oklahoma residents should remember AnnaBelle (Ewing) Shafer. AnnaBelle was very civic minded, receiving many awards and a Lifetime Achievement award presented by the Alva Area Chamber of Commerce and Woman of the Year presented by the American Association of University Women. She earned several nicknames in her dedication to the community. Such as, Alva's "Resident Mover and Shaker" and the "Queen of Alva."

AnnaBelle (Ewing) Shafer, daughter of the late Charles and Mary Elizabeth (Settle) Ewing, was born December 12, 1907, at Caden Point, Missouri, and passed away July 10, 2013, at Alva, Oklahoma, at the age of 105 years, 6 months, and 28 days. Mrs. Shafer attended a rural school in Lipscomb county, Texas, and graduated from Shattuck High School. She attended Draughn's Business School in Oklahoma City. AnnaBelle met her husband, Carl Anton Shafer, and were married on July 22, 1927, at Guthrie, Oklahoma. She worked at Rosenfield Jewelry in Oklahoma City for several years.

It was in 1935, that Carl and AnnaBelle Shafer moved to Alva where she worked at John Tyree's Grocery Store and Treece's Hardware STore. In 1941, AnnaBelle and carl started Shafer's Radio and Television, which they operated together for 40 years. In 1971, they incorporated and gave the stock to employees who had been with them a long time. - AnnaBelle Shafer Obituary.

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