- Date Of Birth: April 22, 1926
- Date Of Death: June 10, 2015
- State: Idaho
Jeanne Klie Shelby
April 22, 1926-June10, 2015
Jeanne Klie Shelby, 89, died suddenly the morning of June 10, 2015. She was born in Brooklyn, NY to Frederick C. and Marjorie (Minion) Klie. She was an only child and her mother died when she was 4 years old. She and her father lived with his parents where her Nanna Klie and Aunt Edie took care of her. When she was 8 years old, her father remarried Meta Berge a public school kindergarten teacher. She was a wonderful mother but died five years later of cancer. Jeanne then lived with her Oma and Opa Berge until her father married again. At 16 she became a step-sister to Carol who preceded her in death.
She attended PS113 through the 2nd grade. In 3rd grade she moved to Adelphi Academy which she attended until graduating in 1943. She loved playing field hockey and basketball while in high school. She attended Adelphi College and was a member of Phi Mu Sorority. While at a Sorority dinner party in January 1944 in a downtown New York restaurant she met her future husband, Samuel Lee Shelby. She quit college after becoming engaged in November 1944 and went to work at Bankers Trust Company on Wall Street until Sam came back from the war in November of 1945. They were married November 4, 1945 in Brooklyn and moved to Springfield, MO where their daughter was born in September of 1948.
After Sam reenlisted in the U.S. Navy, they lived numerous places: Long Beach, CA; Lajes Field on the Azores’ island of Terciera; and back to San Diego, CA. After his retirement from the Navy, they moved to Fairbanks, AK, then to Coeur d’Alene, and finally to Boise in 1987 as a result of Sam’s various job opportunities.
At Lajes Field, Jeanne worked as a Red Cross nurses aid at the Air Force station hospital. She also became a Brownie Leader so her daughter and the other girls could become Brownies. She continued as a Girl Scout Troop Leader as the girls grew. In San Diego she was a council member for a local Job’s Daughter Bethel as well as a member of the Eastern Star chapter.
She enjoyed sewing, knitting, and reading. She was a champion at solving the word Jumbles in the daily newspaper. She also enjoyed vacationing for 28 years in their various motorhomes and was secretary of the region’s Foretravel motorhome club for six years. She liked collecting mugs from their many travels as well as ceramic snowmen, thimbles, and carousel horses which reminded her of her father and the many times he took her to ride the carousels.
In her lovely corner apartment at Overland Court Assisted Living, Jeanne happily lived the last four years of her life. She made many friends among the residents and staff. Her daughter wishes to thank all the people at Overland Court for the wonderful care they gave her mother.
Jeanne was preceded in death (January 2007) by her beloved husband of 61 years. She is survived by her daughter Marjorie Shelby Hooper of Boise and step-grandson Kevin (Elise) Hooper, and step-great grandchildren: Corban, Micah, Eliana, Gideon, and Evangeline all of Midvale, ID.
