sentences:  Declining health caused Shoemaker to retire from Calvary Church and return home to Burnside; however, he continued to broadcast Sunday sermons on the "Faith That Works" radio program from WBAL in Baltimore.He died after a prolonged illness on the eve of All Saints' Day 1963, and was buried after a service at St. Thomas Church in Owings Mills, Baltimore County.He was interred in the family plot in the St. Thomas churchyard, as was his wife who died in 1993.