She was born the 2nd of 12 children to Joseph Charles Sheelar and Kathleen Mary McMahon on Sept. 8, 1918 on a farm in New York. She and her siblings were raised on and helped their parents work that farm until her father's death in a farming accident in 1935. After her fathers death, Marie and her older sister went into training to become Registered Nurses while their mother and the remaining siblings moved to a nearby town where her mother taught school. During World War II Marie used her nursing training to enter the U. S. Army Air Corps as a Flight Evacuation Nurse where she saw extensive duty in the Pacific Theater. After the war she moved to San Diego, CA where she met and married her husband Willard Anthony. She continued her nursing career while raising the two children she and Willard had. After retiring, Marie and her husband moved to Hemet, CA where she kept busy doing extensive research and documentation of family genealogy.
Marie was preceded in death by her husband Willard; sisters Anna Jakaub and Dorothy Calby; and brothers Joseph, Daniel, Leo, Richard, and John Sheelar. She is survived by sister Helen Dobrovolsky and brothers George, Vincent, and Gerald Sheelar; two sons; Michael and Donald; step-daughter Cindy Silver and step-son Richard Anthony; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be on Tuesday, from 4-8pm, August 25, 2009 with Rosary at 6pm at Hemet Valley Mortuary. Mass of Christian Burial is scheduled for Wednesday, 10am, August 26, 2009 at Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church. Interment will follow service 12:30pm at Riverside National Cemetery, Staging #3.
Published in Press-Enterprise on August 23, 2009
She was born the 2nd of 12 children to Joseph Charles Sheelar and Kathleen Mary McMahon on Sept. 8, 1918 on a farm in New York. She and her siblings were raised on and helped their parents work that farm until her father's death in a farming accident in 1935. After her fathers death, Marie and her older sister went into training to become Registered Nurses while their mother and the remaining siblings moved to a nearby town where her mother taught school. During World War II Marie used her nursing training to enter the U. S. Army Air Corps as a Flight Evacuation Nurse where she saw extensive duty in the Pacific Theater. After the war she moved to San Diego, CA where she met and married her husband Willard Anthony. She continued her nursing career while raising the two children she and Willard had. After retiring, Marie and her husband moved to Hemet, CA where she kept busy doing extensive research and documentation of family genealogy.
Marie was preceded in death by her husband Willard; sisters Anna Jakaub and Dorothy Calby; and brothers Joseph, Daniel, Leo, Richard, and John Sheelar. She is survived by sister Helen Dobrovolsky and brothers George, Vincent, and Gerald Sheelar; two sons; Michael and Donald; step-daughter Cindy Silver and step-son Richard Anthony; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be on Tuesday, from 4-8pm, August 25, 2009 with Rosary at 6pm at Hemet Valley Mortuary. Mass of Christian Burial is scheduled for Wednesday, 10am, August 26, 2009 at Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church. Interment will follow service 12:30pm at Riverside National Cemetery, Staging #3.
Published in Press-Enterprise on August 23, 2009
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