\t\t\tShirley Jackson Kelly \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
Shirley Jackson Kelly, loving wife, mother, grandmother and good friend and neighbor passed away on July 24. She was born in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota and moved to San Diego when she was just days old. She graduated from San Diego High School and then attended Occidental College, where she earned a teaching degree. After a short stint teaching and working at the San Diego Union Tribune, she became a law librarian in San Diego.<\/p>\n
Shirley married John Patrick (Jack) Kelly and spent years working with him in his law practice. During this time, she was an active member of the Kensington community and was proud of her roles with the Kensington-Talmadge Community Association, Kensington-Talmadge Planning Committee and Friends of the Kensington Normal Heights Library. She served as Chair of the drive to \u201cSave Our Kensington-Normal Heights Library from Closing\u201d and later served as President of the Friends of the Kensington Normal Heights Library. Shirley also loved following and participating in politics from a young age and enjoyed volunteering with the IRIS Auxilary of the San Diego Center for Children.<\/p>\n
Shirley and her late husband, Jack, loved to travel. Their lives were filled with marvelous adventures including train trips around the world. After her husband\u2019s death, Shirley continued her travels with daughter Shannon and her favorite \u201ctravel buddy\u201d \u2013 grandson Jack. She and Jack loved to learn about the history of the areas they visited. While Shirley was proud to have visited every continent, she also enjoyed the peace and beauty surrounding the family lake cottage in Northern Michigan.<\/p>\n
Shirley\u2019s close friends from San Diego High School would become lifelong friends. Regular get-togethers with the \u201cSan Diego High School girls\u201d brought her joy well into her 80s.<\/p>\n
Shirley is survived by daughter Shannon Kelly, grandson Jack Ducote and the many friends she made along the way. She was pre-deceased by her husband Jack Kelly, parents (Bertine and Charles) and brothers Richard Jackson and Bobby Jackson.<\/p>\n
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Shirley\u2019s honor to the Friends of the Kensington Normal Heights Library or The Traverse Area Historical Society to support student participants in National History Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shirley Jackson Kelly OBITUARY Shirley Jackson Kelly, loving wife, mother, grandmother and good friend and neighbor passed away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-441130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}