- Date Of Birth: July 4, 1921
- Date Of Death: December 25, 2011
- State: Indiana
Shirlee J. Nowicki-Burke, 90, of Elkhart, passed away Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, at 1:47 a.m. at her residence. She was born July 4, 1921, in South Bend to Charles N. and Mildred (Lamb) Yoder.
On March 28, 1942 she married LeRoy T. Nowicki. He died March 12, 1975. She then married Jerome Burke on Dec. 7, 1988, and he died Jan. 9, 1997.
Survivors include a son, Thomas E. (Rene Ann) Nowicki of Goshen; daughter, Alice David of Bainbridge Island, Wash.; 11 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
In addition to her parents and husbands, she was preceded in death by a daughter, Sally Jane Woodward.
Shirlee was a 1939 graduate of South Bend Central High School. She was a member of Beulah Missionary Church, the Four Arts Club and a volunteer at the YMCA Senior’s Center.
