CLAREMONT - After 107 years, Geneva McHann Shaver's life - filled with stories about growing up in the early 20th century in eastern Los Angeles County - has come to an end.

"She was a wonderful storyteller and always had great, funny stories," said granddaughter Laura Shaver Allen, 54.

Shaver died June 26 at the Mt. San Antonio Gardens senior community just a month shy of her 108th birthday.

Shaver moved to Covina from Missouri when she was a young girl.

"One of my greatest regrets is not hearing her tell the story of when her family moved here from Missouri traveling by car and how her brothers fell out of the car when they were playing around, and the boys had to run behind the car to keep up," recalled grandson Greg Decker, 52.

"I heard the last time she told that story she was laughing so hard she couldn't finish it."

Shaver was part of the graduating class of 1914 at Charter Oak Grammar School, graduated from Covina High School in 1919 and Pomona College in 1923.

She married high school sweetheart Stanley B. Shaver in 1925, and the pair were inseparable until his death in 1987.

"(Stanley and Geneva) were very important in Covina for many years," said Bob Ihsen of the Covina Historical Society. "Anyone that has been in Covina for more than 30 or 40 years or connected to the Covina Woman's Club would know her at least by name."

Shaver taught at Charter Oak for a short while, but she was mainly