Lauren LaVearn Shafer

Lauren LaVearn Shafer, 30, of Missouri City, Texas and formerly of Bridge City, Texas, passed away on September 11, 2016, in Houston.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, September 17, 2016, at Claybar Funeral Home in Bridge City, Texas. Officiating will be Reverend Nick Colbert. Burial will follow at Bland Cemetery in Orange.

Visitation will be from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Friday, at Claybar Funeral Home in Bridge City.

Born in Pasadena, Texas, on June 30, 1986, she was the daughter of James Eugene Shafer and Tena Irene (McDonald) Hansen. Lauren attended Bridge City High School where she was on the basketball team, as well as playing softball. She also attended Lake Olympia School in Missouri City where she played the flute and was first chair in band. Lauren loved art and drawing and enjoyed spending time at the beach and outdoors. She was a very compassionate person who liked to help people. Lauren loved traveling and being able to help children. She will be greatly missed by those who knew and loved her.

She was preceded in death by her grandfather, Carl Eugene Shafer, Sr.; cousin, Ricky Paul George, III; and her great-grandparents, Chris and Ozie Frillou.

She is survived by her mother, Tena Hansen and fiancé Eddie Orozco, of Houston; father, James Shafer and wife Nora, of Bridge City; son, Kayden Allen Pepper; siblings, James Allen Shafer and fiancé Candice Joy Lefevre, of Bridge City, Jennifer Anette Shafer, of Bridge City, Brandon Allen Hansen, of Missouri City, and David Justin Allen Hansen, of Missouri City; grandparents, Mary Ann Zerko and husband Ira, of Orange, Eugene McDonald and wife Ann, of Orange, and Frances Daniels and husband Jack, of Houston; aunts and uncles, Margaret Ann George and husband Ricky Paul, of Orange, Walter Frederick Shafer, of Sulphur, LA, Carl Eugene Shafer, of Orange, Sarah McClendon and Dean, of Orange, Rose Shafer, of Vidor, Dianne Chambless, of Orange, Remonia Gonzales and husband Felix, of Bridge City, Cynthia Kay McDonald Shults and husband Robert, of Dayton, Laura Ellen McDonald Konecny and husband Raymond, of Crosby, and Misty Layne McDonald, of Cleveland, OK; cousins, Dawn Shafer and husband John, Chris George, David Zerko and wife Brittany, Dianne Zerko and husband Justin, Vickie Khoury and husband Jeremiah, Evan Gonzales, Santana Smith, Warren Smith, Valarie Burris and husband Mark, and Joe Pennington and wife Tammy; along with her loving boyfriend, Clay Gaspard, of Texas City.