Extracted from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Sunday, November 9, 1997

SCHAFFNER, WILLIE T.

A retired nurse's aide at East Louisiana State Hospital, Jackson, and a resident of Jackson, she died about 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, 1997, at Baton Rouge General Medical Center. She was 79 and a native of Liberty, Miss.

Visiting at Baker Funeral Home, 6401 Groom Road, Baker, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday and after 11 a.m. Monday. Religious services at the funeral home chapel at 2 p.m. Monday, conducted by the Rev. Billy Rose. Interment in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.

Survived by friends, Glenda Luker and Ruth Rabon, both of Zachary, and Dot Shaffer, Ethel; a sister-in-law, two nieces and a nephew and his spouse.

Preceded in death by husband, Melvin Schaffner; mother, Tamara Terrell; father, Joe Terrell; a brother, three sisters and a nephew.