Mary Lee (Bohart) Shanks (68) passed away peacefully on the afternoon of April 2nd, 2021 at Nathan Adelson Hospice. She suffered a stroke and was unable to recover. Many family & friends lovingly attended to her.
Mary was born to loving parents Jack and Maxine Bohart in the small town of Milford, Utah on January 2, 1953. They moved their family to Las Vegas, Nevada in the spring of 1956. Mary grew up the middle child of 5 daughters. She attended Crestwood Elementary, K.O. Knudsen Junior High, and Valley High School where she was secretary of her Senior Class of 1971. Her parking place had the nickname “BoBo” painted on it not only for reference to her last name, but because she was always happy and fun loving.
She went on to get a degree at UNLV receiving her Medical Records certification. Mary went to work at Sunrise Hospital in their Medical Records Department where she made many life long friends. Later in her career she worked for the State of Nevada at the Jean Hanna Clark Rehabilitation Center where she acquired even more lifelong friends. She ended her working career at Tiger Communications which was her dream job because she got to work with many friends that she met while her son E.J. was playing baseball for Durango High School. She would volunteer in the snack shack before and after E.J.’s games.
Although Mary had many friends, her life was centered around raising her son E.J. as a single mother. She devoted countless hours volunteering for the Durango baseball team while E.J. played for the Trailblazers and travel teams. Watching E.J. play baseball was her biggest passion.
Prior to Covid Mary volunteered at Centennial Hospital receiving an award as Volunteer of the Month.
Mary is survived by her greatest loves: son Edward Jack (E.J.) Shanks, his wife Stefanie and their two beautiful children, Blakely and Grayson of Los Altos, California; her sisters, Judy Stewart (J.B.), of Wickenburg, AZ; Nancy Hughes (Bruce), of Las Vegas, NV; Sharon Collins (Don) of Clackamas, OR; Sherry Oravec (John) of Las Vegas, NV; ten loving nieces and nephews; 19 great nieces and nephews and seven great-great nieces and nephews.
Mary was preceded in death by ex-husband Edward Joseph Shanks III; Parents Maxine Carter and Bristol Jack Bohart; half-brother James Bohart and brother-n-law Bruce Hughes.
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