Grace B. Shafer Greggs, 92, formerly of Fargo Street, Erie, died Saturday afternoon at the Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital in Williamsville, N.Y., following a short illness.

A resident of the Erie area most of her life, she also had lived in Florida for a number of years returning to Pennsylvania in 1996.

She was born in Johnsonburg, Pa., Feb. 2, 1916, a daughter of the late Owen and Gertrude Singer Shafer.

Grace had worked as a sales clerk in the drapery department of the Boston Store in Erie for a number of years. Previously, she had worked at the Erie Resistor for several years.

She was a former member of the Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, the Ma's and Pa's Square Dance Club and Club 14 at Gusty's Hall in Erie.

Survivors include a daughter with whom she lived the past 10 years, Nancy Ferrere and her husband, Victor, of Boyers; three sons, Donald L. Greggs of Clarence, N.Y., Richard Greggs and his wife, Maria, of Dothan, Ala., and Gerald Greggs of Geneva, Ohio; a niece who she helped raise, Ruth Bertelsen and her husband, David, of Erie; nine grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and a number of nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 68 years, Donald Richard Greggs, who died Dec. 30, 2001; a son, John O. Greggs in 1967; two brothers, Owen F. Shafer and John Shafer; two sisters, Theda Simmons and Melva Sanden; a grandson, Cary Greggs; and her stepmother, Hattie Shaffer.

<B>GREGGS </B>— Friends of Grace B. Shafer Greggs, who died Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008, may call from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the <B>Russell C. Schmidt & Son Funeral Home</B>, 5000 Wattsburg Road, Erie, corner of East Gore Road and Pine Avenue. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home with the Rev. Hal Shafer, pastor of Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be in Wintergreen Gorge Cemetery.Memorials may be made to the Humane Society, 2407 Zimmerly Road, Erie, PA 16509.