Mary Carolyn Junek Shipley

Mary Carolyn Junek Shipley, 66, of Copperas Cove died Saturday January 30, 2010 in a Copperas Cove nursing home. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday February 6, 2010 at the Temple Brethren Church with Pastor Larry Zabcik officiating. Burial will follow at Seaton Cemetery. Visitation will be held 6-8 p.m. Friday at the Scanio-Harper Funeral Home in Temple. Mary was born January 25, 1944 in Hillsboro, Texas to Ernest Jerry and Anna Kristina Hegar Junek. She was a graduate of Temple High School in 1962 and Temple Junior College receiving her associate degree. She received her bachelor degree from Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas now known as Texas State University. She started teaching in the Copperas Cove ISD in 1968, where she was a math teacher and later became Chairman of the Math Department and was at Copperas Cove Jr. High School as her last assignment. While at the schools in Copperas Cove she was a sponsor of the National Junior Honor Society and assisted with the Junior Historians. She retired in May of 2006. Mrs. Shipley was a member of Temple Brethren Church, the Copperas Cove Retired Teachers Association, SPJST Lodge 47 in Seaton, and the Lambda Omicron Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Honorary Teachers Sorority. Survivors include one sister, Elizabeth Junek Pittman of Beaumont and one brother Lawrence Junek of Waco. Pallbearers will be Matthew F. Pittman, Timothy J. Junek, Daniel Moravec, Adolph J. Junek, Danny Corbett, Stephen Simecek, and Gary Hegar. Memorials may be made to the Copperas Cove Retired Teachers Association Children's Book Project, C/O of Katie Irick, 2308 Mountain Ave., Copperas Cove, TX 76522 or Temple Brethren Church, 2202 Birdcreek Dr., Temple, TX 76502 or American Cancer Society, 1700 Lake Success Dr., Waco, TX 76710.