Shirley Pauline Parker passed away on Monday, March 23, 2015 in Kalispell, MT she was 79 years of age. She was born July 4 th , 1935 in Kalispell, Montana and a lifelong resident of the Flathead Valley, residing in Bigfork Montana. She graduated from Batavia Grade School and Flathead High School. She was married to Gerald Parker on July 11, 1953 and they celebrated their 61 years of marriage last summer. She worked as a clerk for Echo School and bookkeeper for Thermal Tech besides being a homemaker and mother to her family. She was an avid participant in her ceramic club and a member of Swan Chapel for many years. She also loved working in her garden of pink roses, daffodils, and peonies and baking pies and cookies for her family.
She is survived by her beloved husband Gerald Leon Parker of Bigfork, MT., son’s Terry Leon Parker and wife Ann Parker Wesley Allen Parker and wife Lori Parker, daughter Laurie Rae Johnson, sister and lifelong friend Ellie Nauman, grandchildren Ben Johnson, Katie Cochran, Megan Johnson and Jeff Nunamaker, Charles and Heather Parker, Adam and Kristen Parker, Stephanie and Corey Joiner, Michael Parker and Kat Wilson and Kyle Parker, and great grandchildren Morgan Cochran, Ashley Cochran and Holden Parker.
She was preceded in death by her parents Emil and Ellen Mellem, her five brothers Jack, Emil, Wilbur, Russell and Robert Mellem and her three sisters Mary Holcomb, Florence Robinson and Clara Gardner.
A funeral service will be held Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 12:30 P.M. at the Easthaven Baptist Church in Kalispell, with a burial to follow at Glacier Memorial Gardens and with a reception to follow burial for family and friends back at Easthaven Baptist Church.
Memorials suggested to: Gideons International or a charity of your choice.