Shirley Sue Blair started her life in Topeka, Kansas on December 02, 1943. The daughter of Irene Nadine Deskins and Russell Roy Deskins. She was accompanied in birth and in life by her twin sister Linda Lou Lewis who survives her and lives in Topeka today. She went to Topeka High school and married young. She had two daughters from that union, Paula Nannette in 1962 and Robin Marie in 1963. When her marriage ended she moved to California with her mother Irene Nadine. There she was married a second time and had a third daughter named Rochell Ann in 1969. After divorcing her second husband, she lived in California and worked for the state of California for 28 years. She retired in 2005 and spent the majority of her retirement loving and caring for her great grandchildren.
She was a selfless, loving mother to three daughters, seven natural born grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren with a 7th on the way. She was also grandma to every child related by marriage through her natural born offspring as well as the close friends of those children and great grandchildren. There were many people who did not share her blood but called her grandma anyway. She had room in her heart for everyone that was in her small circle and she was willing to widen that circle to anyone in need. She was very shy. She always said “I’m not a talker” but in her quiet way she touched lives in a ways that she would never acknowledge. She did not see that anything she did was extraordinary but her family disagrees. She passed on a level of love, compassion and honesty that formed an unbreakable glue to bind her family forever. She was not an inventor or innovator but she has passed on a capacity for love that has grown through her offspring and that makes the world a better place to be. She left this world May, 13th 2017. She left us surrounded by beauty and without pain and suffering. She will live forever in our hearts. There will be a private interment at Sunset Lawn Chapel of the Chimes 4701 Marysville Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95838.