Shelby Jean Pigott Stewart was born to the late Eugene Douglas Pigott and Arie Ann Magee Pigott Delaughter on December 19, 1937. She grew up on Highway 27, North and South of Tylertown, MS. Shelby’s father passed away when she was eleven, and her mother remarried later on, moving the family from South of Tylertown on Highway 27 to North of Tylertown on Highway 27. She attended Lexie Elementary, graduated from Salem High School in 1956, and went on to graduate from William Carey College in 1960, earning a BA in Elementary Education and a Masters in Education at Mississippi College in 1974. It was while she was at Carey that she met the love of her life, Ron Stewart, while washing dishes. Ron and Shelby worked their way through college on a work scholarship in the dining hall serving three meals a day (family style) and washing dishes. As it happened, they continued the dish washing after they were married on August 23, 1959.
They had 56 years with the loves of their lives until Ron went to be with the Lord on December 25, 2015. After graduating from Carey, she went into teaching. She taught elementary school for thirty three and a half years; twenty four of those years were spent teaching first graders, three teaching combination grade first and second, and in the remaining years she managed to teach all the grades except fourth, which was the grade she taught in Sunday School. Most of her teaching career was done at Lee Elementary, but she also taught at Jones, Pecan Park and Timberlawn.
She was known as a Teacher’s Teacher; she loved to teach. Shelby started her teaching career after college at Bourgnemouth Elementary in Louisiana, and three years later, she moved to Mississippi where she started teaching for Jackson Public School Systems until retiring in 1994 due to health reasons. Just a few months after the moved to Mississippi,, she gave birth to her one and only child, a baby girl they named Susan. Shelby was involved in several organizations: Alpha Delta Kappa / Gamma Chapter, Retired Teachers, New Directions, and Mended Hearts. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Jackson where she attended and taught Sunday School, took part in the music ministry by joining he senior adults choir known as the Reflections Choir and took part in Homebound Ministry.
Shelby is survived by a daughter Susan Stewart; sister, Wilda Alford; brothers and sisters-in-law, Don Stewart (Mona) and Ric Stewart (Cindy); and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
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