Agnes Susan (Shaeffer) LeMaster

July 30, 1899 – July 2, 1994

Agnes Lemaster, 94, died Saturday, July 2, 1994.

Born in Kansas on July 30, 1899, she was the daughter of Benjiman and Ella (Butts) Shaeffer. She came to Noble County with her parents. Her father was a rural school teacher and Agnes also aspired to become one. She graduated from Perry high in 1918 and began her teaching career in Prue, Oklahoma.

On February 1, 1921, she and Noel E. LeMaster were married in Hominy, where they planed to make their home. He was in the wholesale oil business and they moved often. In 1937 they moved to Corpus Christi where they lived for nine years before Noel died in 1946. Agnes continued to live in Corpus Christi until 1953 when she moved to Cleveland, OK, where here sister lived, and later that year accepted employment in Tulsa, OK. Over the next few years she lived in Cleveland, Tulsa, and Fort Worth before settling back in Cleveland. She worked part-time at dress shops in Hominy and later was employed to make draperies for a carpet and drapery shop in Cleveland.

Agnes enjoyed deer hunting in Colorado and is reported as having “bagged” two deer. She also traveled to Australia where she spent a month.

Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, and the A. J. Powell Cemetery, Hominy, OK.