Harry Bird Shaw's Obituary
Harry Bird Shaw, passed away on Friday, November 24, 2006 in Albuquerque, NM. The son of Samuel and Amelia Shaw, he was born January 2, 1914 in Cutler, IL. He grew up on the family farm, graduated high school at the age of sixteen and attended the teacher's training program at Southern Illinois Normal University. On June 11, 1936, he married his high school sweetheart, Dorothy Virginia Schoch who preceded him in death on April 16, 2002 after nearly 66 years of marriage. Harry was a teacher in an eight-grade one room school, a carpenter and a 70 year member of the Carpenter's Union. He was a sailor in WW II. He spent his career as an employee of the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons. He served at several institutions, retiring in 1969 from assignment as the Business Manager at the maximum security U.S. Penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington. Thereafter, he taught business at the Clover Park Vocational-Technical School in Tacoma, Washington, worked at the Lakewood United Methodist Church and devoted himself to his family. In 1996, he and Dorothy moved to Albuquerque, NM where both of their children reside. Survivors include his son John and his wife Janice Lehmann-Shaw and their children Kathryn and Douglas and his daughter Rosemary Wold and her husband Alexander Wold and their daughters, Rebecca, Kirsten and Alexis. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006 at 1:00 p.m. in Pyatt-Harrawood Funeral Home, Pinckneyville, with Pastor Jim Barnett officiating. Interment will follow at Mueller Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at Pyatt-Harrawood Funeral Home, Pinckneyville on Wednesday from 12:00 p.m. till 1:00 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the American Diabetes Association.
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