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- Shirley Mae McNutt was a bookkeeper.
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The Rapid City Journal (SD)
February 7, 2004
RAPID CITY - Shirley Mae (McNutt) DeFord was born October 5, 1927 in Custer, SD to G. Frank and Ida McNutt. She died at Bella Vista Nursing Home on February 4, 2004.
Shirley attended schools in Custer and after graduation moved to Rapid City. She married Howard DeFord on June 10, 1951. Shirley attended Beautician School before working at the Rapid City National Bank, now US Bank, as a proof machine operator for many years retiring in the early 1980's. She lived on the DeFord (Gerry) Ranch estate from 1951 to 2000. In the 1970's and 1980's Shirley and Howard used CB handles "Pet Pie" and Prospector". Her smile was contagious, she loved to dance, laugh and go out to Mosey's.
Their first son, Michael died in infancy. They had four more children; Patricia (Al) Miller, Marana, AZ, Kathy Horsley of Rapid City, Charles DeFord of Rapid City and Tina (Ed) Cox of Theodore, AL; three brothers, Cecil of Dallas, TX, Tom of Woodinville, WA, Carl of Chanhassen, MN; one sister, Ruth Schneider of Rapid City and six grandchildren, Randy and Jessica Horsley, Michael, Cassie, Nicholaus and Eddie Cox, three nieces, Mac Brady of Tennessee, Norma Hamilton of Rapid City, Nancy Brady and family of Rapid City, sister-in-law, Wanita "Neinei" Simpson of Bothel, WA and children Kim and Robbie, brother-in-law, Gerald (Eleanor) DeFord of Lancaster, CA and their daughter Camie, a niece, Teresa Brady of Wyoming, special friends, Charlie (Georgia) Parker and Benji.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1991, her parents, one sister, Mabel Brady and two brothers, Raymond and Merle McNutt, brother-in-law Robert Simpson, and three nephews, Bill Brady, Ed Brady and Dick Brady.
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