UPDATED INFORMATION:
A Celebration of Life will be held 5:30 pm - 8 pm, on Saturday, August 14, 2021,
at the Edwardsville Gun Club, 4104 Staunton Rd., Edwardsville, Illinois 62025

John J. Albers, Sr., age 59, of Lebanon, Ill., born May 23, 1961 in St. Louis, Mo., passed away Sunday, August 30, 2020 at Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Mo.

John grew up in St. Louis and graduated from SLU High School. He earned his B.S. degree in Geology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He had a long career with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, retiring 3 years ago. He loved retirement and took advantage of his time fishing, hunting, and trap-shooting with friends. He loved his fishing trips to Canada with his son, and spending time with his granddaughters who were his pride and joy. John was a thoughtful, appreciative and kind husband, father, step-father and friend, whose adventures were cut short by his passing.

He was preceded in death by his mother Jane F. Albers; father-in-law William H. Shaffer, and brother-in-law Stephen M. Shaffer.

Surviving are his wife, Barbara Shaffer, of Lebanon, whom he married 31/2 short, but fantastic years ago on October 28, 2017; his father Fred Albers of Glen Carbon; mother-in-law Jo Ann Shaffer of Lebanon, Ill.; children Katy (Jason) Nall of Sheboygan, Wisc., Jay (Selina Lujan de Albers) Albers of Windsor, Colo., and his stepson Benjamin Shaffer (who thought of John like a father); sister Susie (Britt) Parnell of Tulsa, Okla., brother Fred (Kristi) Albers of El Paso, Tex.; nieces Sally (Grant) Freeman and Kellie Parnell, nephew Austin Albers; and niece Suzanne (Steven) Pohlman; his beloved granddaughters Emma Jene Nall and Josephine Marie Nall, a new grandson Lucas John Albers; and his great-nephew Blake Freeman.

A private Mass was celebrated with the family.

A Celebration of Life will be held 5:30 pm - close, on Saturday, August 14, 2021, at the Edwardsville Gun Club, 4104 Staunton Rd., Edwardsville, Illinois 62025