- Date Of Birth: October 18, 1944
- Date Of Death: November 18, 2022
- State: North Carolina
Shirley grew up in Lubbock, Texas tap dancing, playing with their dog Blackie and attended Monterey High School. A Suma cum laude graduate from the University of Albany, SUNY with a degree in Political Science, Shirley worked for the Capital District Women’s Employment and Resource Center after college. Her career included owning the Calico Trunk, a fabric store below Hubbard Hall, Cambridge, NY, Executive Director of the Hospice of Washington County, Cambridge, NY and Office Manager of the Good Shepard Lutheran Church, Raleigh, NC.
Shirley was an avid gardener and loved her dachshunds, reading, canasta, photography, cooking, baking and music (Queen, Joe Cocker, Bill Withers, Jerry Riopelle, Harry Nilsson, and Jimmy Cliff). She was a supporter of the arts and helped create the nonprofit Hubbard Hall in 1977 in Cambridge, NY, an opera house built in 1878. She joined a group of women to build a script fit log cabin in Searsburg, VT. She was also a longtime volunteer with Home Made Theater in Saratoga, NY. She was courageous, strong, funny, caring and always there for her children, grandchildren, and friends. Shirley was a huge democrat and a feminist. She loved the beaches in Maine and Ragged Lake, NY.
The family thanks all of the many caretakers over the last few years as well as friends and family for their generosity.
