Shirley was born on April 5th 1929 to Clarence and Fay Shandy in Elk WA., she passed away on April 19th 2018 in Portland OR. Shirley moved to the Sheridan and Wilamina area when she was an infant in 1930 where they lived for 5 years. They moved to McMinnville when she was 6 years old, she attended Cook School grades 1 thru 6, went to McMinnville Jr High School and graduated from McMinnville High school in 1947. Shirley worked as a dental receptionist from 1949 to 1960. In 1960 she started attending
Portland State University where she Graduated in 1964 with a Bachelors of Science in education. In 1964 she started teaching with the Portland Public Schools at Sabin Elementary School where she taught for 5 years, in 1969 she moved to Meriwether Lewis Elementary where she taught until she
retired in 1991. In 1945 at the Saginaw Convention she professed. Shirley loved all children and spent her life making all of them feel special.
Shirley was preceded in death by both of her parents, a brother Clarence and a sister Donnie.
She is survived by her sister Alice Carter of Bellevue, WA; 3 nieces, Tristan Nilsson of Sweden, Shannon Moller of Seattle, WA, and Juanita Alexander of Midland, TX; and one granddaughter Jadeyn Davidson Pease of Milwaukie, OR.
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