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Louise Shaffer
1916 - 2007

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• Birth	1 Mar 1916	Fillmore, Ventura, California
  Gender	Female
  Died	15 Jan 2007	Acton, Los Angeles, California
  Person ID	I007	Ancestors of Sarah Mouchet
  Last Modified	09 Oct 2007

  
  

  Father	Lacy Elmer Shaffer,   b. 25 Dec 1889, Redding, Shasta County, California ,   d. 7 Dec 1986, Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California
  Mother	Isabel McIntyre McGregor,   b. 17 Aug 1893, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio ,   d. 17 Dec 1984, Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California
  Married	30 Sep 1912	Ventura, Ventura, CA
  Family ID	F007	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Francois Leon Paul Mouchet,   b. 24 Nov 1906, St. Eugene Hospital, Cranbrook, BC, Canada ,   d. 1 Oct 1994, Camarillo, Ventura, California
  Children	1. Living
  Family ID	F004	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos		Lacy and Louise Shaffer, 1916
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  		Louise Shaffer taken about 1931.
  		Louise Shaffer
  		Louise Shaffer In her new Plymouth, 1940.
  		Louise Shaffer Army Picture
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  Documents		Newspaper article about U.S. army nurses in England from Llandudno newspaper. May 13, 1944.
  		Newspaper article about WWI draft status of married draftees in Ventura County, including Lacy Shaffer From the Oxnard Courier, August 31, 1917
  		Louise Shaffer birth certificate

  
  

• Notes

  Louise was born in Fillmore, California. She remembers that her father drove a car, but farmed with a team of horses. They had a hand-powered washing machine that they bought at the Ventura County Fair. When they moved to Canoga Park Lacy drove the family and their posessions in the car and then came back to for the horses. Her dad bought a 1924 Dodge and it was their first "closed in" car. It was a touring car that had a fabric top that they could put on when it rained. The seats could fold completely flat and the family would sleep on them when they went camping. In cold weather they would heat water and pour it over the manifold to make the car easier to start. Louise remembers her grandfather Alex teasing her father, "Are you sure you can get them home in that thing?" Lacy's answer was, "I've got a wrench and a wheelbarrow. We'll make it!" She fondly remembered family get-togethers at "the Lake" and visiting her grandparents (Alexander and Hattie McGregor) in Placerita Canyon. After Alex died, Hattie would take Louise, Harold, and Bert for a week at a time. They would go down to the river and bury each other in the sand. When the farm workers came to pick walnuts, they would hang around the campfires and the workers would give them Mexican food. The 1941 L.A. City directory lists her as a nurse working at General Hospital and living in Canoga Park. She served as an Army nurse in WWII. Was stationed in Llandudno, England during the war. The nurses slept in a "manor house" and all the latrines and medical facilities were in tents. They only had one bathtub, in a tent, for all the nurses. They were allowed one bath every five days. The nurses had practice drills in case of attack. They drilled climbing down a ladder from the third floor. In case of aerial attack the nurses were supposed to disperse into the hills, but instead they all ran together to the same place. After the war was over she was transferred to Bremerhaven, Germany. She recalls spending 5 days on a train riddled with bullet holes. Once the nurses arrived they treated the starving POWs until they could be evacuated.