James married FELDHEIMER, Denise [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. JOHNSON, Alexandria Grace

William married SHAFER, Beverly Grace [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lozzilaire Johnson Worked in youth sports leagues
Lozzilaire Johnson, 82, of Niagara Avenue, a pipefitter at the Olin Corp. for 47 years and prominent in local sports circles, died in Niagara Falls Memorial. Medical Center Friday (March 7,1986). Born in Perry, S.C., he came to Niagara Falls in 1920. He retired from Olin in 1969. Johnson was a longtime basketball and baseball manager and official. He organized leagues in the Echota area and developed children's leagues through schools and churches. Johnson managed the Olin baseball team for 17 years and played with Olin, Essex, Echota, Niagara Wall Paper and All-Niagara teams. He also managed Echota, Lewiston and Youngstown baseball teams and for years coached teams in the Municipal Basketball League, winning titles in 1938 and 1939. Johnson was president of the Niagara Falls MUNY Football League and was president of the Double-Eye Baseball League for two years. He served on the advisory board of the City Recreation Commission for 11 years and ran city Recreation Department night league games at Niagara Falls schools. He was a charter member of the Niagara Rapids Athletic Club. He was also former director of the Retired Men's Service Club and was honored at an Old Timers' Picnic. He was a member of the Olin Retirees, a member of the LaSalle Lodge N6. 1049 F&AM, and a member of the Senior Citizens of St. James United Methodist Church. He was winner of the Fabulous 40's sportsman award in 1973 and won the Church Baseball League's meritorious award. The Johnson and (Jack) Langley Baseball League was named after him. Langley, former president of the Niagara Falls Pirates, who worked with Johnson in baseball programs for years, called him "a wonderful guy who really loved baseball. "He wanted the kids to be taken care of. That was his first thought, take care of the little boys growing up. Everybody loved him for that," said Langley. Langley said Johnson was a good teacher who produced many of the area's top baseball players. He was the husband of the late Amy Ella Johnson and is survived by a daughter, Shirley M. Johnson of Niagara Falls; a son, William J. Johnson of Barrington, Ill.; and two grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. He was the brother of the late Christine Heuer. A service will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at the Otto Redanz Funeral Home, Michigan Avenue and 10th, Street. The Rev. Arthur O. Northrup will officiate. Burial will be at Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Members of the LaSalle Lodge No. 1049, F&AM, will conduct a service Sunday at 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Contributions to St. James United Methodist Church or the Niagara Oncology Association are acceptable as tribute.

Lozzilaire + GOATER, Amy Ella. Amy (daughter of GOATER, Joseph William and BRIND, Louisa) was born about 1906 in England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Niagara Gazette - 12/17/1968

SHAFER-At home, Saturday, Dec 14,
1968, Lawrence R. Shafer of 1115 Vanderbilt
Ave. Husband of the late Grace
Rommel Shafer; father of Mn. Wllllam
(Beverley) Johnton, Westport,
Conn, and Roland J. Shater, this city;
brother of Mrs, Arthur (Mildred) Wittcopp,
Lewlston, N.Y, Roy W. Shafer,
Lewlston and Carl J, Shafer, Middleport,
N.Y.; grandfather of James M.
and Kathryn A. Johnson, both of Westport,
Conn. Funeral service In Zlon
Lutheran Church, Michigan Avenue ot
Tenth St., Tuesday, Dec. 17, 1968 at
1:30 p.m. The Rev. Paul R. Swank
officiating. Interment Memorial Pork
Cemetery. It is the family's wish that
tributes be made to the Zlon Lutheran
Building Fund. Friends may call ot
the Chapel of Cornell & Doggett Inc.
South Ayenue at Tenth Street, Monday,
7 to 9 e.m.

Lorenz married ROMMEL, Grace Loraine on 31 Dec 1925 in Zion Lutheran Church, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. Grace (daughter of ROMMEL, John and Lena) was born on 1 Oct 1904 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; died on 11 Jan 1946 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY - Right Center. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William + STARNES, Elisabeth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married BRIND, Louisa about 1900. Louisa was born about 1880 in England; died about Apr 1943 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Born in log cabin on what is now Lafayette Avenue in the city of Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. He was a dairy farmer for 4 decades on Witmer Road and was school trustee, Town welfare officer and helped build the old gorge scenic railroad. He was one of the first wholesale dairy farmers to supply milk to the City of Niagara Falls.

Niagara Gazette

JACOB SHAFER DIES
Retired Farmer Was Lifelong Town of Niagara Resident.
Jacob W. Shafer, 81-year-old retired farmer and lifelong resident of the Town of Niagara, died this morning in the family homestead in the Witmer road, where he had resided for the last 54 years. Born in the Town of Niagara on Nov. 4, 1860, Mr. Shafer attended the old Cleveland avenue school at Suspension Bridge and graduated from the Northwestern Business college at Mapleville, Ill., in 1881. He was married on April 3, 1888, to Kathleen Laur, who died five years ago. He is survived by four sons and a daughter, William J., Roy W., Lawrence R. and J. Carl Shafer, and a daughter, Mrs, Arthur Wittcopp, all of Niagara Falls, and a sister, Mrs. R. J. Brandt, of Lockport. The funeral will be held from the Redanz funeral home at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, with services at the Zion Lutheran church at 2 p.m., Burial will be in Riverdale cemetery.

Jacob married LAUR, Katharine on 3 Apr 1888 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. Katharine (daughter of LAUR, Vitus and RUSS, Catharina) was born in Jul 1869 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; died on 18 May 1936 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; was buried in Riverdale Cemetery, Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Niagara Falls Gazette

SHAFER-At her home, May 18, 1936, Katherine Shafer, age 66, wife of Jacob W.; mother of William, Roy, Lawrence, Carl, Mrs. Mildred Wittcopp, all of this city; sister of Andrew, John, Henry and Chris Laur and Mrs. William Mess of this city. She is also survived by 10 grandchildren. Funeral from the home on Saunders Settlement Road, Wednesday at 3 and 3:30 from Zion Lutheran church, MI avenue and Tenth street. Rev. Arthur Schmoyer officiating. Interment In Riverdale cemetery. Deceased was a member of Ladies Aid of Zion Lutheran church and Ladies Rural Club.

John married Lena about 1901. Lena was born about 1881 in Canada; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]