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Ida (Friel) Shamberger
Ida (Friel) Shamberger died in Windsor, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005 at age 86.
Mrs. Shamberger was born Nov. 3, 1918 in Lompoc. She had been a Yolo County resident for more than 30 years. She was a 1936 graduate of Pierce High School in Arbuckle. She was a retired executive district manager for AVON Products Inc.
Survivors include Mrs. Shamberger's children, Gary and Pat Shamberger, Jim and Betty Shamberger, Bob and Nancy Shamberger and Stan and Linda Hudson and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband of 54 years, Leonard Shamberger.
Services: Visitation is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 10 at McNary's Chapel, 458 College St., Woodland. A funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 11 at McNary's Chapel. Interment will follow the funeral at College City Cemetery. McNary's Chapel is assisting the family with arrangements.
SHAMSHOIAN
Mab E. Shamshoian
Passed away in the UC Retirement Center in Davis Aug. 18, 2004 at the age of 90. She was born in San Francisco Jan. 9, 1914 to the late William and Mabel (Thistleton) Bannister.
Mrs. Shamshoian attended Lowell High School, Pasadena Junior College and St. Luke's School of Nursing in San Francisco. She received her bachelor of science in public health from UC Berkeley and her bachelor of arts degree in sociology at UC Davis.
While working with the State of California Department of Public Health, Mab met and marriage Haig Shamshoian in 1940. During his tour of duty in World War II, she returned to San Francisco and continued to work as a PHN. When Haig returned from France after the war, they spent some time living on Army bases in Kansas and Texas. Then at last, in 1946, the two native Californians headed home to San Francisco. Their only child, a daughter, Harriet Ann was born in Sacramento in 1946.
Mab most likely wanted to stay in San Francisco, but her husband had a new job to oversee the construction and be chief administrator of the Yolo County Housing Authority, which was the first low-rent housing program for non-migrant workers in California.
Mab kept herself busy working with the blood bank for the Red Cross and worked with the hospital auxiliary as a volunteer. She was a member of Episcopal Women, Republican Women, Shakespeare Club and Outlook. She was a wonderful cook and she played bridge and mah jong. Mab was an avid reader and the library would call her when a new book arrived they thought she would like to read.
Mab returned to college at UC Davis while raising her daughter and attained another degree. She returned to full-time nursing at Yolo General Hospital while her daughter was in college.
Mrs. Shamshoian is survived by her daughter, Harriet Giles and husband Richard and her granddaughter, Elyse, all of The Woodlands, Texas. She was preceded in death by her husband Haig Shamshoian in 1988.
A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 24 at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Second and Lincoln Streets, Woodland at 2 p.m.
Memorials may be directed to Yolo Hospice or St. Luke's Episcopal Memorial Fund. McNary's Chapel assisted the family with arrangements.
SHARMA
Santi Devi Sharma
Santi Devi Sharma died in Woodland Memorial Hospital Thursday, July 25, 2002, at age 79.
Born April 14, 1923, in India, Mrs. Sharma had been a Woodland resident for 22 years and two years in Yuba City. She worked for Harter Cannery, Yuba City as a sorter.
Mrs. Sharma is survived by her daughters, Parkash Sehjpal and Usha Vaid, both of St. Louis, Mo.; sons, Madan Sharma of St. Louis, Mo., Sumittar Sharma, Ram Sharma, Karam Sharma, and Braham Sharma, all of Woodland; brothers, Som Pandit of Yuba City, and Shiv Pandit of Union City; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her brother, Balkishan Pandit.
A service is scheduled at noon, Saturday, July 27, at Ullrey Memorial Chapel, Yuba City. Final Prayers and cremation will follow at the Ullrey Memorial Chapel Crematory.
Ullrey Memorial Chapel Inc. is assisting the family with the arrangements.
SHARPNACK
George J. Sharpnack
Mr. George J. Sharpnack peacefully passed away, surrounded by his family, on Feb. 16, 2006 at Woodland Heathcare, at the age of 84. He was born in Sacramento on July 24, 1921 to Yolo County residents, George K. and Irene M. (Perkins) Sharpnack.
George was a fourth generation, lifelong resident of Yolo County. He was a class of 1940 graduate of Woodland High School and went on to serve as a pilot and flight officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1944 to 1946, flying the B-24 "Liberator" aircraft. Prior to his active duty, on Nov. 26, 1944, he marriage his wife of 61 years, Alma (Celoni) Sharpnack. After completing his military duties, the couple returned to Woodland and George began a 36-year career with PG&E; as an Estimating Engineer, and built the family home, working nights and weekends. Mr. Sharpnack was an outdoorsman and shared this passion by teaching his children to have the same love of nature. They are grateful for this gift he shared over so many years. Hunting, fishing and scuba diving were sports he enjoyed. After his retirement, he became an avid golfer, but deep down his real passion was being a vegetable gardener, canning his own tomatoes, curing olives and making "Grandpa's sausage" for his children.
George and Alma pulled their travel trailer to many, many states and even to the tip of Baja. They bought a vacation home at Lake Tahoe and fixed it up to enjoy with family and friends, celebrating George's 80th birthday there, surrounded by his entire family. He was past president of the Lee School PTA, a lifetime member of the Elks Lodge No. 1299, a member of American Legion Post No. 77 and a volunteer driver of the Woodland Community Care Car. George cherished his family and friends. His independent spirit, integrity and sense of humor will be missed by all who knew him.
Mr. Sharpnack is survived by his wife Alma of Woodland; his son, John Sharpnack and wife Susanne of Alameda; his daughters, Susan Sharpnack of Sacramento and Mary Shaw and husband Harry of Petaluma. He was the proud and loving grandfather of Sarah and Katherine Shaw, and Tomiko, Matthew and Andrew Sharpnack. Also surviving is his sister, Ann Cunningham of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and nephew Mark Cunningham. He was preceded in death by his parents and his nephew, P.J. Cunningham.
A private memorial service will be held prior to his burial. Family and friends are invited to attend a celebration of Mr. Sharpnack's life at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 at Woodland Hotel, College and Main streets, Woodland. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations in Mr. Sharpnack's memory be made to the charity of the donor's choice.
Kraft Bros. Funeral Directors of Woodland assisted the family with arrangements.
George J. Sharpnack (2nd of 2 obits.)
George J. Sharpnack died Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006 at Woodland Heathcare, at age 84.
Mr. Sharpnack was born in Sacramento on July 24, 1921 to George K. and Irene M. (Perkins) Sharpnack. He was a lifelong resident of Yolo County. He was a class of 1940 graduate of Woodland High School and went on to serve as a pilot and flight officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1944 to 1946, flying the B-24 "Liberator" aircraft. After completing his military duties, the couple returned to Woodland and he began a 36-year career with PG&E; as an estimating engineer. He was past president of the Lee School PTA, a lifetime member of the Elks Lodge No. 1299, a member of American Legion Post No. 77 and a volunteer driver of the Woodland Community Care Car.
Survivors include Mr. Sharpnack's wife of 61 years, Alma of Woodland; his daughters, Susan Sharpnack of Sacramento and Mary Shaw and her husband Harry of Petaluma; his son, John Sharpnack and his wife Susanne of Alameda; his grandchildren, Sarah and Katherine Shaw, and Tomiko, Matthew and Andrew Sharpnack; his sister, Ann Cunningham of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; and his nephew Mark Cunningham. He was preceded in death by his parents and his nephew, P.J. Cunningham.
The family requests memorials in Mr. Sharpnack's name be made to the charity of the donor's choice.
Services: A celebration of Mr. Sharpnack's life is scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 at Hotel Woodland, 436 Main Street, Woodland. Kraft Bros. Funeral Directors of Woodland assisted the family with arrangements.
SHAW
Walter Robert Shaw
Walter Robert Shaw died on Jan. 25, 2006. He passed peacefully in his home with his family present and with care from Yolo Hospice. A resident of Covell Gardens for three years, he was 81 years old.
A memorial service at Covell Gardens will take place in the spring and a private scattering of his ashes will be held at a later time.
Born in Kearny, N.J. on Nov. 1, 1924, he was the oldest of three children born to Robert Kerr Shaw and Cecilia Keane Shaw, who immigrated from Paisley, Scotland in 1923. During school, he excelled in both academics and sports, especially football. In 1940, during his junior year at Kearny High School, he was an invited guest at the presentation ceremonies of the Heisman Memorial Trophy Award in honor of Thomas Harmon.
After high school, he attended Brooklyn Academy and then Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach, N.J., where he continued to play football until enlisting in the United States Navy in 1943. After completing basic training in Newport, R.I., and attending the Submarine School in New London, Conn., he served as a quartermaster, third class, in the Atlantic on the USS Porpoise and USS Cachalot. In 1944, he was appointed to Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, N.Y. as a Navy V-12 student for officer training and accelerated college instruction. While there he received his first two years of college engineering course work while continuing to play football and basketball.
He marriage his high school sweetheart, Joan Anderson Ward, in Kearny on Feb. 16, 1946. The following summer they moved to Moscow, Idaho so he could attend the Idaho School of Mines on the GI Bill. He took very heavy course loads each semester and earned a Bachelor's Degree in Mining Engineering with High Honors in 1948 and a Master's in Metallurgical Engineering in 1949. To support his young family while in school, he tutored other students in math, worked on road survey crews, and during the most memorable summer of his life (1947), assisted Prof. William W. Staley on a 3, 800-mile survey of the mineral deposits throughout Idaho. It was during this summer that he fell in love with the wilderness areas of the Sawtooth and Salmon River Mountains and the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in central Idaho.
After graduation in 1949, he worked for a short time with the Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology then embarked on a very successful career in mining, metallurgical, and chemical engineering that moved his family back and forth across the United States several times and took him to mining sites throughout the world. During his career he became a registered professional engineer and worked for a variety of mining and engineering firms, Northwestern Magnesite Company, International Minerals and Chemical Corporation, H.K. Porter Company, Western-Knapp Engineering Company, National Lead, Ralph M. Parsons Company, and in 1986 he retired as a vice president of process engineering for Lurgi Corporation.
In his personal life he was an avid reader, loved traveling, enjoyed collecting coins, and had a passion for college football and basketball. He particularly enjoyed traveling to the mountains and ocean and made trips in recent years to Idaho, Lake Tahoe, the Mendocino Coast, and Monterey Peninsula. While living at Covell Gardens, he helped run the Country Store, played poker and bingo, and participated on the hospitality committee. He had a wonderful sense of humor and was described as very intelligent and a gentleman by his family, colleagues and friends.
He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 54 years, Joan; his sister Mary (Maisy) Martin; his son, Robert; and his granddaughter, Morgan.
He is survived by his sister, Catherine (Kitty) Clark of San Marcos; his daughter, Sandra Shaw and her partner, Wendy Nyquist of Davis; his daughter, Carrie Shaw and her husband, Marc Hoshovsky of Davis; his granddaughter, Jennifer Shaw-Battista and her fiance, Jeff Novick of Winters; his granddaughter, Jessica Shaw-Battista and her fianc/, Michael McPhate of New Delhi, India; his grandsons, Galen and Reed Hoshovsky of Davis; his niece, Pamela Eimers, her husband, Alan Humason, and her son, Kyle Humason, also of Davis; his sister-in-law and brother-in-law Betsy and Doug Frey, of Carbondale, Penn.; his sister-in-law and brother-in-law Rev. Bruce and Kay Poynter of Frederick, Md.; and brother-in-law Billy Martin of Santa Susana.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Yolo Hospice in his name.
SHELDON
Harold Claude Sheldon
Harold C. Sheldon died in his home in Brooks Saturday, Nov. 5 at age 87.
Mr. Sheldon was born Nov. 11, 1917 in El Campo, Texas to Earl and Pearl (Barley) Sheldon. He had been a Yolo County resident for 24 years. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, seeing action in the East Indies and the South Pacific. He participated in the battles for Papua, Guadalcanal, among others. He was awarded the good conduct medal, the distinguished unit badge the Asia-Pacific campaign medal and the Asiatic Victory medal. In 1981 he retired from the sheet metal business in Southern California.
Survivors include Mr. Sheldon's wife of 33 years, Bobbie (Patterson) Sheldon; his children, Linda Benson, Chris Foisy and her husband Jack, Linda Morgan and her husband John, Maureen Wright, Valerie Benson, Jim Sauls and his wife Denise, Bernie Sauls; nine grandchildren; 9 great-grandchildren; his first wife, Katharine Sheldon; his sisters, Doretha Griffin, Violet Smithburg; his brothers, Leon, Stan, Carroll, Sid and Darrell; and 27 nieces and nephews.
The family requests memorials in Mr. Sheldon's name be directed to the charity of the donor's choice.
Services: Viewing and visitation is scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10 at Kraft Bros. Chapel, 175 Second St., Woodland. A funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 11 at Kraft Bros. Interment, with full military honors, will follow the service at Capay Cemetery in Esparto. Kraft Bros. Funeral Directors is assisting the family with arrangements.
SHELLY
Stanley M. Shelly
Stanley M. Shelly of Davis died at Woodland Memorial Hospital July 21, 2004, after a brief illness.
Born on April 16, 1926, Shelly served in the U.S. Navy during World War II aboard the USS Steven W. Granville and the USS Montpelier in the Pacific Theater.
Following his naval service, he attended Ohio State University. He spent his entire professional career in agribusiness, including the last 30 as owner/operator of Farmer's Grain and Feed in Willshire, Ohio.
He retired to Davis in 1992.
Friends and family are invited to a memorial service on Sunday, Aug. 22, from 1 to 3 p.m., at Walnut Terrace Apartments Community Room, 3101 Fifth St. in Davis.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Davis Senior Center or Ohio Future Farmers of America, 25 S. Front St., Mail Stop 603, Columbus, OH 43315.
