Shirley M. Shipston

Shirley M. Shipston, 97 passed away on June 16, 2020. She was born in Whitehouse, NJ on March19,1923 to Otis and Bertha (Swinglehurst) Moore. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister, Doris Kearse and her husband of 56 years, G.Carl Shipston.

Shirley will be missed by her children, Richard A. Shipston, Judy (Joe) Keener, her grandchildren, Matt (Jaca), Beth (John)Laflumboise, Alan (Daria) and her great grandchildren Naomi Keener, Joey and Samantha Laflumboise, and Maya and Evie Keener.

Shirley enjoyed working on her handwork. Besides sewing all of her clothes and her daughter Judy"s clothes from birth till HS graduation, she also made Judy's wedding dress and bridesmaids dresses. Whenever someone had a new baby, she would make a cute dress and then smock the top just for fun. She knit whenever her hands were idle, watching TV and on long car trips. She did needle point and then made them into pillows or seat cushions or beautiful framed pictures. She did cross stitch with her Grandmother and then when Carl retired fell in love with counted cross stitch. She made more than 50 professionally framed wall hangings of her beautiful counted cross stitch scenes.

Shirley also volunteered most of her life. When Dick and Judy were in elementary school, she was very active in PTA. Not only would she be an officer, but she would organize and run school fairs put on in the spring or fall outside on large playgrounds. Shirley was a Girl Scout Leader of the same troop from First grade thru High School and then worked with the local scout office on other projects. Pluckemin Presbyterian Church was one of her other activities. She belonged to the Woman's group and organized and ran large meetings and meals for local groups in the Fellowship Hall even when the children were still in school. Sometimes as many as 50 to 100 people were fed lunch by Shirley and her crew. They bought the food, made the meals, and served the food for all of them.

The different groups Shirley was a part of are too many to list all, but her favorites were her Chapter of DAR which she joined after she researched her ancestry and found her father's family came over to the colonies shortly after the Mayflower. She belonged to the Colonial Dames and the National Society of New England women. She was proud of her heritage. Her other love was her chapter of Tri-Delts from college to age 80. She understood what they stood for and the Charity work both organizations were doing. She loved all the friends she made along the way and kept up with many as long as she was able.

No public services will be held. She will be laid to rest next to Carl in the Pluckemin Cemetary in NJ.

In lieu of flowers, the family would encourage you to make donations in Shirley's memory to The Seeing Eye, Box 375, Morristown NJ 07963-0375, or at www.seeingeye.org.