OBIT: Nell Rees (Leonard) SHIRLEY, 1931, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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NELL SHIRLEY

  Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon in Pittsburgh for Mrs. R. L. 
Shirley, who died Monday night at about 8:30.  Mrs. Shirley was a sister of Mrs. 
Fulton N. Shipley of Meyersdale, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Leonard of 
Macon, Ga., and was born and reared in Meyersdale.  Interment was made in the 
Poke Run Cemetery, Pittsburgh.  Mr. and Mrs. Fulton N. Shipley attended the 
funeral.  Mrs. Shirley's untimely death was a shock to her many friends in 
Meyersdale who highly esteemed her.

Meyersdale Republican, October 15, 1931

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NELL REES LEONARD SHIRLEY

  Mrs. Nell Rees Leonard Shirley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Leonard, 
formerly of Meyersdale and now of Macon, Ga., was born Oct. 21, 1892, in 
Meyersdale.  She was graduated from the Meyersdale High School in 1909 and from 
Wilson College at Chambersburg, Pa., in 1913.  From 1913 to 1916 she taught 
school in New Cumberland, W.Va.  On June 24th, 1916, she was married to Rome L. 
Shirley, then of Apollo, Pa.   Mr. and Mrs. Shirley went to housekeeping in 
Edgewood, Pa., where they had resided ever since.  To this union were born two 
sons, Leonard, now aged 13, and David, 11.  She died Monday, Oct. 12th, 1931.  
Funeral services were conducted at the family home on Wednesday, Oct. 14th, at 8 
p.m. and interment was made Thursday morning in the Polk Run Cemetery, 
Pittsburgh.  Mrs. Shirley is survived by her husband, her parents and her two 
sons; also a brother, E. D. Leonard, Jr., and a sister, Mrs. Fulton N. Shipley 
of Meyersdale.  The services were conducted by Rev. Dr. Tom Pears, a Princeton 
classmate of Mr. Shirley, and now pastor of the Waverly Presbyterian Church of 
Edgewood, of which both Mr. and Mrs. Shirley were members.  Mrs. Shirley had a 
magnetic personality that won for her a host of friends who mourn her passing.

Meyersdale Republican, October 22, 1931