Stan Shafar, 95, died peacefully on Wednesday at the home he shared with his wife of 30 years, Geraldine Fisher; children Tom (Rose) Shafar, Larry (Joanne) Shafar, Paul (Rhonda) Shafar and Carole (Eric) Hageman, Larry (Lynne) Fisher and Scott (Cindy) Fisher, numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Known as Harpo because of his head full of curly hair, Shafar worked as an engineer after left the service. He taught engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology and worked many years for Hotpoint, where he invented the square refrigerator.
When Stanley Shafar was a young Marine sharpshooter in World War II, he was stationed in the Pacific Theater. The wheels kept falling off of the 2-ton trucks because the kingpins on the axles kept breaking. As a tool and die maker, he was the guy to fix the problem. He gathered up all of the cast iron sash weights from the windows on the base and turned them into kingpins, was so successful that his commander would not let him muster out when his two-year enlistment was up until he trained someone else how to make the kingpins.
He was an avid golfer, bowler and baseball player who complained to a doctor when he was in his mid-80s that "it hurts when I play sports."
Memorial gathering will begin at 3pm Saturday, September 10, followed by a service 4:30pm at Kolbus - John V. May Funeral Home, 6857 W, Higgins Ave., Chicago.