Sharon and Floyd got an apartment in La Mesa , as they started their life together which would last over 50 years.  Floyd worked a night shift at Golden Arrow Dairy, and Sharon worked a day shift and some times they saw each other during the week was as they drove past each  on the freeway going to, or coming back from work.   They saved up and bought the property in Lakeside in 1972 that would be their home.   It was a hillside with a lot of bush and native trees when I first saw it.   But they had a vision and had it bulldozed and terraced then worked to put in walls, walkways and plants.   Sharon would come and get me when I out of school in the summer and help her with the work she was doing.     Sharon and Floyd loved camping, fishing and traveling.   Sharon loved living in San Diego and enjoyed showing her children the sights.  They loved raising a family of Floyd II and Bryan and would do what they could.   Bryan had severe needs as he got older and Sharon was a patient caregiver for her son along with Floyd.   While our mom was alive she took both Sharon and I on a week cruise which was an enjoyable getaway time.   I was able to come and visit from Arizona from time to time, one of the favorite places Sharon and I would go was to the beach, or overlook the bay.    Sharon was very kind and loving  to those she encountered, and she loved the Lord.    Sharon's heath started to decline over the last 2 years and Floyd was a loving caregiver for Sharon during this time.   I praise God that I was very blessed to have a wonderful sister, and am looking forward to seeing her again on the heavenly shores.
Her brother Ken Thompson

Living with my sister, one memory won't do.
About 1969 Sharon started going to the College Avenue Baptist Church.   At this time she met the love of her life, Floyd Dudley he had just gotten out of the Air Force after serving in Vietnam.   He worked as a Floor Manager for the Newberry Department Stores, and had a 1969 GTO.   My Sister brought him out to the house, I weighted about 60  lbs. soaking wet and he tossed me around like a rag doll, and warned me not to sneak up on him since he got from the war.   I made sure not to do this, but being an impish brother I did frontal attacks.    Sharon and Floyd went out and one night and I was in the family living room warming myself under the wall heater past my bedtime.   Sharon and Floyd came home, and I made a quick dive behind a corner sofa  and hid.  To my surprise they sat down on that very sofa, and I started breathing very quietly as not to get caught.     They sat for a while and  then Floyd asked my sister to marry him.   I wanted to shout say,  Yes, but also wanted to live to see tomorrow.   My Sister did say yes and the rest is history.


Sharon was my older sister and was great sister to have.
She was 13 years older than me, we enjoyed playing and wrestling, but I always got pinned down until I said Uncle.   We enjoyed going on family vacations every year going through various routes, Mt Rushmore, Yellowstone, Denver mint, State Capitals and then seeing our Grandma in Jamesport, MO and in Springfield, MO.  Playing the "I Spy Game " on the road to pass the time.   After High school she got a job at City Chevrolet in San Diego and bought a new mid sixties Chevy Nova.  She then worked at North Island Naval Air Station, and at the Navy Hospital.   The salt air was not kind to her car and it developed several rust spots on its roof.   My sister was very artsy and creative and cut out flowers from kitchen shelf paper and covered her car roof with these flowers.   It was in the 1970's and flower power was in.

Thank you for sharing your love and devotion to to our family.  We love you for caring about all of us and always being so generous.  Thank you for opening your house to family and friends during the holidays, it was always so joyful.  Your niece and nephews have so many happy memories of times you took them to see the ocean, watch the seals, collect sand dollars, and other fun places.  We all have so many loving memories.  Thank you for being part of our family.  

OBITUARIO

Sharon Kay Dudley

24 julio, 1946 – 24 octubre, 2021

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