Daughter of Benjamin Gear and Inez Shiell, youngest sister of Vi, Donald, Laura, and Roy.
Frances and Shelby married on September 1, 1944, in Fort Scott, Kansas, by a Justice of the Peace. They met while she was in nurses training. He was the brother of her room-mate, Helen, and once Grandma saw his picture, she knew he was for her. They started writing each other and on his furloughs they would meet. Back then, you couldn't be married and be a nurse so she quit nursing school and they started a family.
They have 7 children. Shirley, Jim, Phyllis and husband Joe, Sharon and husband Steve, Joyce, Roy, and Judy and husband John.
She is survived by 6 children, 9 grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren, and 3 great great grandchildren.
Grandson Michael.
This poem was said at her funeral by her oldest son:
Safely Home
I am home in heaven, dear ones,
Oh so happy and so bright!
There is perfect joy and beauty
in this everlasting light.
All the pain and grief is over,
every restless tossing passed.
I am now at peace forever,
safely home in heaven at last.
There is still work waiting for you,
so you must not idly stand.
Do it now, while life remaineth,
you shall rest in God's own land.
When that work is all completed,
He will gently call you home.
Ah, the rapture of that meeting,
Oh, the joy to see you come.
Frances and Shelby married on September 1, 1944, in Fort Scott, Kansas, by a Justice of the Peace. They met while she was in nurses training. He was the brother of her room-mate, Helen, and once Grandma saw his picture, she knew he was for her. They started writing each other and on his furloughs they would meet. Back then, you couldn't be married and be a nurse so she quit nursing school and they started a family.
They have 7 children. Shirley, Jim, Phyllis and husband Joe, Sharon and husband Steve, Joyce, Roy, and Judy and husband John.
She is survived by 6 children, 9 grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren, and 3 great great grandchildren.
Grandson Michael.
This poem was said at her funeral by her oldest son:
Safely Home
I am home in heaven, dear ones,
Oh so happy and so bright!
There is perfect joy and beauty
in this everlasting light.
All the pain and grief is over,
every restless tossing passed.
I am now at peace forever,
safely home in heaven at last.
There is still work waiting for you,
so you must not idly stand.
Do it now, while life remaineth,
you shall rest in God's own land.
When that work is all completed,
He will gently call you home.
Ah, the rapture of that meeting,
Oh, the joy to see you come.
Daughter of Benjamin Gear and Inez Shiell, youngest sister of Vi, Donald, Laura, and Roy.
Frances and Shelby married on September 1, 1944, in Fort Scott, Kansas, by a Justice of the Peace. They met while she was in nurses training. He was the brother of her room-mate, Helen, and once Grandma saw his picture, she knew he was for her. They started writing each other and on his furloughs they would meet. Back then, you couldn't be married and be a nurse so she quit nursing school and they started a family.
They have 7 children. Shirley, Jim, Phyllis and husband Joe, Sharon and husband Steve, Joyce, Roy, and Judy and husband John.
She is survived by 6 children, 9 grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren, and 3 great great grandchildren.
Grandson Michael.
This poem was said at her funeral by her oldest son:
Safely Home
I am home in heaven, dear ones,
Oh so happy and so bright!
There is perfect joy and beauty
in this everlasting light.
All the pain and grief is over,
every restless tossing passed.
I am now at peace forever,
safely home in heaven at last.
There is still work waiting for you,
so you must not idly stand.
Do it now, while life remaineth,
you shall rest in God's own land.
When that work is all completed,
He will gently call you home.
Ah, the rapture of that meeting,
Oh, the joy to see you come.
Frances and Shelby married on September 1, 1944, in Fort Scott, Kansas, by a Justice of the Peace. They met while she was in nurses training. He was the brother of her room-mate, Helen, and once Grandma saw his picture, she knew he was for her. They started writing each other and on his furloughs they would meet. Back then, you couldn't be married and be a nurse so she quit nursing school and they started a family.
They have 7 children. Shirley, Jim, Phyllis and husband Joe, Sharon and husband Steve, Joyce, Roy, and Judy and husband John.
She is survived by 6 children, 9 grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren, and 3 great great grandchildren.
Grandson Michael.
This poem was said at her funeral by her oldest son:
Safely Home
I am home in heaven, dear ones,
Oh so happy and so bright!
There is perfect joy and beauty
in this everlasting light.
All the pain and grief is over,
every restless tossing passed.
I am now at peace forever,
safely home in heaven at last.
There is still work waiting for you,
so you must not idly stand.
Do it now, while life remaineth,
you shall rest in God's own land.
When that work is all completed,
He will gently call you home.
Ah, the rapture of that meeting,
Oh, the joy to see you come.
