Obituary for Shirley Marie Daniels

Jan. 13, 1954—Sept. 14, 2018

Shirley Marie (Murphy) Daniels was born Jan. 13, 1954, to Stanley Amos Murphy and Mary Marceline (Stoneking) Murphy in Dresden, Ohio.

Shirley was raised on a small farm outside of Dresden with her two brothers and two sisters. As a teenager she taught Sunday School in her church. She met the love of her life, Orville Daniels Jr., and they married July 27, 1973.

The couple began their journey together with a love of traveling. They raised five children together along with many neighborhood children all while Shirley worked as a certified nursing assistant. She always loved having children around her, and she especially loved to spend time with all of her grandchildren. In recent years, she cared for her husband while he endured cancer and Alzheimer’s. Shirley was a loving mother and natural born caregiver.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Orville Daniels; parents, Stanley and Mary Murphy; sister, Linda Collopy; along with many aunts and uncles.

She is survived by brothers, David and Sue Murphy and Rob and Mellissa Murphy; sister, Martha and Dan Reed; children, Mark Daniels, Ross and Ashlie Daniels, Orville Daniels, Mary and Mike Heberling, and John and Alisha Daniels; grandchildren, Seth, Stephan, Christian, Fabian, Kyle, Hali, Dominic, Gavin, Skylar, Joey, Nolan, Alyssa, and Felicity.

Memorial services will be held at 2:00 pm in her honor on September 22nd at the First Baptist Memorial Church located at 903 S Summit Ave, Newcastle, WY 82701.