Tulsa, OK, Obit COLEMAN, Priscilla Shaw
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Posted by Jeff Smith in May2002

COLEMAN -- Priscilla Shaw , 47, of Tulsa, died  May 6, 2001. Born 
October 8, 1953 in Tulsa to Samuel T. Coleman and Alice Douglass 
Coleman. She attended Tulsa Public Schools graduating from Memorial 
High School in 1971. She attended DePauw University, graduated from 
Washington University in St. Louis and received her Master's of 
Social Work from the University of South Florida in 1983. She completed 
a Post Master's Clinical Fellowship at the Menninger Foundation in 
Topeka, KS, in 1984. She was licensed as a Clinical Social Worker in 
Florida and Oklahoma. She worked in community mental health centers as 
well as in-patient facilities with severely disturbed children and 
adolescents. She became qualified as an expert witness in 4 states, 
including New York and was recognized as an excellent diagnostician 
in character pathology and development disorders like Autism and 
Asberger's Syndrome. Throughout her life she was active in the Boston 
Avenue Methodist Church voice and bell choirs, UMW organizations and 
mission work, including a mission trip to Nicaragua in 1996, until a 
heart transplant on July 24, 1997, forced her to curtail her activities. 
She is survived by: her mother, Alice, of Tulsa; a brother, John, of 
Denver; a nephew, Paul, of Los Angeles; a niece, Kathleen, of Tulsa; 
and many friends. She was predeceased by: her father, Samuel T.; and 
her brother, Tom Coleman. Stanleys