12/16/2023
Terry Lynn Shaffer, 59, of McAlester, passed away Thursday, Dec. 14, in Ada. Visitation will be Sunday from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Brumley-Mills Funeral Home. Graveside funeral services will be held on Monday, Dec. 18, at 3:00 p.m. at the family property at 159 Wild McNatt Way, the McNatt-Johnson property on highway 113.
Terry Shaffer was born on Sept. 12, 1964 in Stigler to Orville "Kook" Shaffer and Imogene (Hicks) Shaffer-Lefler. He had lived in Kinta, Haileyville, Lequire, and Dow, and attended Haileyville schools. After school he worked for Muskogee Bridge and Pocahantas Mines. For the past number of years, he has owned and operated his own business, Terry's Tree Trimming and Firewood. He was a jack-of-all-trades and there wasn't much of anything he couldn't do. It was once said, "If Terry can't lift it, nobody can." He was on of the best heavy equipment operators around,
Terry is survived by his sons, Jordon Dunham and Jake McNatt and Aubrey; his life partner, Missy Morgan; step-son, Bryan Johnson an wife Kathryn and their children, Reid, Kandon, Aubree and Laklyn; other step-children, Dillon Voegle, Keane Voegle, Treasure Bentley and Mallory Camp; grandchildren, Makayla McNatt, Jake D. McNatt, Tyson Martinez, Ava Martinez, Lyric Hatter, Dillon Rogers, and Trinity Rogers; siblings, Danny Shaffer, Jerry Shaffer, Joann Weiher, Cheryl Aldridge, Gary Stephen Lefler, and Lisa Whorton; sisters-in-law, Marsha Shaffer and Susie Shaffer; nieces and nephews, Eric Myer, Crystal Shaffer, Emily Shaffer Lovett, Lauren Shaffer, Casey Shaffer, Tiffany Lefler, Blake Cobey Aldridge, Ethan Shaffer, Jacqueline Shaffer, and Megan Monasco; his ex-wife, Carloyn McNatt; and the mother of his children, Teresa Dunham and Sharron Leird. Step Mother Vernie Shaffer. He was preceded in death by son, Jamie Leird; his parents; his grandparents and great grandparents, Alfred "Skinny" Hicks, Dollie Hall, Henry Joseph Shaffer, Mary Roden Shaffer; uncles, Wilmer, Edgar, Joe, Carl, Charlie and Harold Shaffer and Alan Hicks; and nephews, Lucas Shaffer and Jerry Shaffer and sister Ramona Shaffer.