Lila Mae Sheely
March 17, 2017 at 3:53 p.m.
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She was born Sept. 30, 1938, in Greentown, Ohio, to Benjamin Thomas Jr. and Alma Fern Stickle Sheely.
She spent her lifetime serving, learning and teaching. Never wasting a minute, she received her nursing degree in Ohio in 1960. She spent three years at Grace College and Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, finally receiving her master's degree in 1992 from Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion.
She worked as a nurse for 15 years in Arizona and Indiana. She went to France to study French, and studied tropical diseases in Belgium. She served as a missionary nurse for 20 years in the Central African Republic. When she returned to the U.S., she taught at Indiana Wesleyan University in the nursing division for seven years until her retirement.
She had been a member of the Grace Brethren Church in Sebring, Fla., and attended chapel at Grace Village Retirement Community, Winona Lake.
She will be lovingly remembered by her two sisters, Ann Elaine (husband Robert) Kaufman, Mesa, Ariz., and Lynette Jean (husband Richard) Dennis, Tempe, Ariz.; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded by her parents and her brother, Melvin Sheely.
No visitation is planned. A service of recognition will take place at Grace Village Retirement Community at the Grace Village chapel during the service at 10 a.m. Sunday. Chaplain Bryan Benjamin will officiate.
Arrangements are entrusted to Redpath-Fruth Funeral Home, Warsaw.
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Memorials to Grace Village Retirement Community, 337 Grace Village Drive, Winona Lake, IN 46590, to go toward the Wellness & Fitness Center.
Condolences may be sent at www.redpathfruthfuneral
home.com.
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She was born Sept. 30, 1938, in Greentown, Ohio, to Benjamin Thomas Jr. and Alma Fern Stickle Sheely.
She spent her lifetime serving, learning and teaching. Never wasting a minute, she received her nursing degree in Ohio in 1960. She spent three years at Grace College and Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, finally receiving her master's degree in 1992 from Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion.
She worked as a nurse for 15 years in Arizona and Indiana. She went to France to study French, and studied tropical diseases in Belgium. She served as a missionary nurse for 20 years in the Central African Republic. When she returned to the U.S., she taught at Indiana Wesleyan University in the nursing division for seven years until her retirement.
She had been a member of the Grace Brethren Church in Sebring, Fla., and attended chapel at Grace Village Retirement Community, Winona Lake.
She will be lovingly remembered by her two sisters, Ann Elaine (husband Robert) Kaufman, Mesa, Ariz., and Lynette Jean (husband Richard) Dennis, Tempe, Ariz.; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded by her parents and her brother, Melvin Sheely.
No visitation is planned. A service of recognition will take place at Grace Village Retirement Community at the Grace Village chapel during the service at 10 a.m. Sunday. Chaplain Bryan Benjamin will officiate.
Arrangements are entrusted to Redpath-Fruth Funeral Home, Warsaw.
*****
Memorials to Grace Village Retirement Community, 337 Grace Village Drive, Winona Lake, IN 46590, to go toward the Wellness & Fitness Center.
Condolences may be sent at www.redpathfruthfuneral
home.com.
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