IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Patricia Maxine

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Shelley

Mar 25, 1927 — Jan 2, 2015

Obituary

Patricia Maxine Shelley, 87, of Memphis, Missouri, died Friday, January 2, 2015, at the Scotland County Hospital in Memphis. Patricia was born March 25, 1927, in Azen, Missouri, to Robert Eugene and Martha Amelia Russell Biggs. Patricia attended Clay Point School and completed the eighth grade. She attended Granger High School and left to become a homemaker and then was later encouraged to return to high school. She graduated in 1955. Patricia married Lester Wayne Robinson on December 31, 1942, and to this union a daughter and four sons were born. She was a very devoted and loving mother, working hard to support her children. Patricia married Garland "Junior" Shelley on August 4, 1968 and he became the only father her children ever knew. Patricia was a member of the Morman Church. She was a clerk in the Dodge & Smith Grocery Store in Memphis for seventeen years. She was an excellent homemaker and a great cook. She was very talented and could accomplish almost anything she might decide to do. She attended classes in Kirksville to learn sign language so that she could more effectively communicate with a grandson. Patricia was very proud of her family and supported them in any way she could. She is survived by a daughter, Linda Shannan and her husband, Tom, of Granger, Missouri; three sons: Larry Robinson and his friend, Janice Dove, of Centerville, Iowa; Leroy Robinson and his wife, Margie, of Storm Lake, Iowa and Roger Robinson and his wife, Pattie, of Memphis, Missouri. Also surviving are seventeen grandchildren, and many great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren; a brother, Tipton Biggs and his wife, Maureen, of Omaha, Nebraska. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, "Junior," in 2000; a son, David Robinson, in 2009; a sister, Marilyn Doud and two brothers: Joedd Biggs and Ben Biggs. Memorial services will be held at the Memphis Funeral Home on Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 2 P.M. with Reverend Charles Hammack officiating. Burial of cremains will follow in the Prairie View Cemetery.
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