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Submitted: 3/11/15 • Approved: 3/13/15 • Last Updated: 3/24/18 • R58622-G58622-S3
1 Oct 1928 - 8 Sept 2004
Born in Canadian, Texas and died
in Pampa, Gray County, Texas
Wife of Clifton C Kelley
Children: Frank Evans Kelly and Kimberly
Kelly Russell
*Obituary
Published 10 Sept 2004
Amarillo Globe-News
WHITE DEER - Shirley Evans Kelly, 75, died Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2004, in Pampa.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church with Dr. Buddy Young, interim pastor, and the Rev. Jim Shamburger, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Victoria, officiating. Burial will be in White Deer Cemetery by Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors of Pampa.
Mrs. Kelly was born Oct. 1, 1928, in Canadian. She had been a resident of White Deer most of her life. She graduated from White Deer High School and graduated from Mary Hardin-Baylor University in Belton where she received her BS degree in home economics.
During college, she was state president of the Home Economics Students Association and president of the Royal Academia Honor Society. She married C.C. Kelly on Aug. 12, 1948, in White Deer. She was a homemaker. She was a substitute teacher in both the White Deer and Skellytown schools for more than 40 years.
She was a member of First Baptist Church and a leader and director of the G.A.'s. She was a member of the Baptist Women's Group, and taught Vacation Bible School. She was a member of the Delta Kappa Gamma National Teachers Organization and the Venada Blanco Study Club.
Survivors include her husband; a son, Frank Evans Kelly and wife, Carolyn Steward, of New Orleans; a daughter, Kimberly Kelly Russell of Dallas; a brother, Brian Ed Evans of White Deer; three sisters, Nancy Evans White of Texarkana, and Carolyn Evans Carpenter and Barbara Evans Browning, both of Plainview; five grandchildren, Scott Alan Kelly of Gretna, La., Kyle Wayne Kelly and Beth Wood Kelly, both of Slidell, La., and Jennifer Lynne Russell and Jonathan Michael Russell, both of Dallas; a great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Grace Kelly of Slidell; and her aunts, nieces, nephews and cousins.
Contributed on 3/11/15
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