Charles Emmett Shaffer was the second of eight children born in Enid, Oklahoma to Verland "V.C." and Josie McCaslin Shaffer November 27, 1932 and passed away March 26, 2015 at the age of 82.

During Charles' childhood years, his family moved around between Oklahoma and California eventually settling in Carney. He later married Marjorie {Margie} Steger in 1952. They raised four children together, Leroy, Tommy Lee, Leona Freerksen and Lydia Casas.

Charles began his career working in the cotton fields when he was just a kid. When he and Margie married, he was working on the high-lines. Around 1954, he began working as a derrick hand, in the oil fields in Abilene, Texas. He followed the oilfields in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado and finally Wyoming where he settled his family. He became a driller and continued working in the oilfield until 1978. Never being one to let idle hands lay, while working in the oilfields, he also farmed, ran a gas station, water hauling business and a mobile home business. In 1978, he left Wyoming to pursue his race horsing business.

Charles loved horses and together with his brother George, they ran a successful horse farm and training center for many years. Charles was an avid hunter and fisherman. For many years he was a Hunting Guide and would take groups to the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming.

He was an active member of the First Assembly of God Church in Gillette, Wyoming. Since moving to Luther, he fellowshipped and became a part of the Open Door Assembly of God.

Charles was preceded in death by his parents, V.C. and Josie; sisters, Bonnie Lee and Jo Dean; children, Tommy Lee, and Leroy.

Survivors include the mother of his children, Marjorie {Margie} Steger; children, Leona Freerksen and Lydia Casas; eight grandchildren, Christopher and Corey Collins, Joylynn Rothmeyer, Kaley and Kensie Freerksen; Magdalena, Marisela and Pedro Casas; eight great-grandchildren; sisters, Sarah Ann, Alice Ramona; brothers, Jesse James, George Verland, John Lewis, along with his Open Door Assembly of God Church family where he has been a member for over 20 years.

A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday March 30, 2015 at the Open Door Assembly of God Church in Luther.

Arrangements were under the direction of Lehman Funeral Home of Wellston.