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Ann C. Shirkey

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Ann C. Shirkey, 95, of Stuttgart, widow of Orin Edward Shirkey, died Tuesday, May 22, 2012, at Briarwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Little Rock. Mrs. Shirkey was born May 18, 1917, in Slovak to Frank and Anna Suchan. She was a waitress for several years at the Pam Pam and then The Red Pump until it closed. She was a member of Holy Rosary Catholic Church. She enjoyed watching the Arkansas Razorbacks and Dallas Cowboys play football, cooking, canning and playing bingo, but mostly loved spending time with her family and friends. Besides her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her son, Edwin Shirkey. Survivors are her daughter, Joan Minton of Little Rock; three granddaughters, Joanette Garwood (Scott) of Fort Worth, Lynn West (Mark) of Mayflower and Lori England (Mark) of Lonoke; and three great-grandsons, Matthew Cole of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and Grant Garwood and Garrett Garwood of Fort Worth. Funeral mass will be at 10 a.m., Saturday at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Stuttgart with burial following in Lone Tree Cemetery. Visitation will be 5-6:30 p.m. Friday with rosary being said at 6:30 p.m. at Turpin Funeral Home. The family requests memorials be made to Holy Rosary Catholic Church or Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie. Please go to www.turpin-co.com to sign the online guestbook.

Published May 24, 2012

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