Sharon Shaw 4/10/1936 - 7/15/2021

Sharon Lee (Smith) Shaw passed away quietly at her home in Roseville on Thursday July 15, 2021 at the age of 85 years and two months. Sharon was born on April 10, 1936 in Springfield, Missouri to Troy Smith and Gertrude (Kirk) Smith. She attended public schools in the Springfield area and then her family moved to the California area where she went to school in Loomis, CA and graduated High School at Roseville High School in 1953. She continued her education through attending Sierra Junior college and receiving an AA degree in 1956. During her child hood years she suffered two significant physical injuries: she had polio as a small child about 4 years old and then suffered the loss of an eye through an accident. She persevered through these injuries to go on and succeed in life. Through a training program provided by the Department of Rehabilitation, she trained as a medical laboratory technician. Her first employment as a laboratory Technician was with Sacramento County. Then, she worked 29 years for Kaiser Permanente, retiring as a Senior Laboratory Technician in 1996. She was active in a local church (Roseville Gospel Tabernacle) starting in 1948 as a 12-year-old and continuing until 1982. She worked In the Youth Department and later in the Sunday School Departments primary grades. She married Rodney Shaw in 1960 and then had two daughters Ronna and Rebecca. She and her husband left the Roseville church in 1982 to assist a small church group in Orangevale and relocated to Bridgeway Christian Church in 1998. Sharon's life was one of grace and forgiveness to others. She had many friends, co-workers and children who loved her and she loved them. When she married, she had wished for a large family (she came from a family of five brothers and five sisters). However, she only had two daughters, but through the daughters and granddaughters she had 16 great grandchildren. She was able to hold each one them and to love on them when they arrived. The joy of her life was to see some of them as often as she could, her love for children was boundless. Her greatest pleasure for the last three years has been when her grandson Casey could get her out of bed and into her wheelchair which allowed her to sit in the family room and watch her grandchildren and great-grandchildren play in our swimming pool. She fell while going to a restroom in 2018 and injured her leg rendering her bedfast from that time until she passed last Thursday. She never complained and rejoiced when people came to visit her. Her last day Wednesday was a joyful one for her, her sister Joan and two friends, Carol and Lorene visited her to sing songs and talk. That evening she ate a good meal and was sound asleep by 10:00, she left us the next morning. Given the extent of her childhood injuries, she lived a long life filled with adventure and excitement as she served the Lord and watched her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren grow up. She was preceded in death by her parents, Troy and Gertrude Smith, a sister, Marva Stone, a brother, Charles (Sonny) Baker, a son-in-law Donald Courtright and a brother-in-law Thad Shelnutt. She leaves to mourn her husband of 61 ½ years: Rodney, her brothers Troy (Bud)and Angela Smith, George and Gayle Smith, Leonard Smith and Elmer Smith; her sisters Joan Shelnutt, Alice and John Ynchausti, Mary and David Campbell. Her two daughters Ronna and Dennis Davis, and Rebecca Courtright, grandchildren Tom and Amanda Davis, Tim and Courtney Davis and Shawna and Greg Beam, Casey and Crystal Courtright, Cody and Suzie Courtright, Shara and Justin Hall and sixteen great grandchildren.Services will be held at Cochrane & Wagemann Funeral Home, 103 Linda Street, Roseville, California on July 26, 2021 at 1 pm. Burial will be in Fairport, Kansas.