Stillwater Valley News
October 3, 1932
After a long illness lasting over a period of four years, on Wednesday night Glenn F. Shawver gave up the fight and passed in beyond the vail. Although in very poor health he kept up his business in the store until last March when he was compelled to relinquish it to help. From that time on he made a great struggle to get well, feeling as he said to his pastor, " I must for Bobbie's sake." And not until last Sunday did he cease to make the fight. He was the son of Elmer and Martha Alice Shawver and was born in Columbus, Ohio Feb. 2, 1880, and died at his home in Covington, Ohio, Sept. 28, 1932, at the age of 52 years, 7 months, and 26 days. When Glen was but three years old his father who was a railroad engineer, died, and he and his widowed mother came to live with her father and mother in Bradford. When he was about twelve years old his grandparents died and he and his mother came to Covington, to live with his aunt, Mrs. Hill, and in another three years his mother died leaving him entirely orphaned. But he continued to live with his aunt who cared for him like a mother. While still in high school he began working in the store for Mr. Cramer under whose encouragement he decided to study pharmacy. He attended a school of pharmacy at Indianapolis where he graduated in 1915. About ten years ago he purchased the store from Mr. Cramer where he continued in business up until the time of his death. On October 1, 1907 he was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Musser and to them was born one son Robert, who alone is left of that little happy family, Mrs. Shawver having died April 27, 1930. Mr. Shawver was a member of both the Knights of Pythias and Masonic Lodges of Covington. He was a member of the Covington Congregational Christian Church, having united with the church at the same time that his son Robert did during the pastorate of Rev. William Freeman. He was of a rather retiring disposition, but always friendly. During his illness his pastor visited with him and to him he expressed his readiness to die. When hardly able to walk at all some months ago he slipped out of his bed and got the Bible, and when his sister-in-law looked she found him reading the twenty-third Psalm. Several times she found him reading that same Psalm, which seemed to bring to him such comfort, and the pastor is using that for his text. He does not leave many near relatives except his son Robert, however his wife's brother and sister, Weber and Annabelle Muster have been like a brother and sister to him since the death of his wife. In the home in which he lived for so many years were four cousins who were very near to him and who lived to mourn his death, Mrs. Augustine and Mrs. Reed of Covington, and Herbert Hill of Bradford and Lorain Hill of Freemont, Ohio. An aunt by marriage Mrs. Ella Flomerfelt of Greenville was also very dear to him.
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