Shirley Jean Jenkins Obituary
It is always difficult saying goodbye to someone we love and cherish. Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Shirley Jean Jenkins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, born in Atlantic, Iowa, who passed away at the age of 89, on November 13, 2023. You can send your sympathy in the guestbook provided and share it with the family.
She was predeceased by: her daughter Julia Beth (Vernon); and her siblings, Dorothy Craney and Harold Christensen. She is survived by: her husband Vernon Jenkins; her daughters, Lori Jenkins, Susan Jenkins and Katherine Benjamin (Jenkins); her grandchildren, Ryan Alliss and Holly (Alliss); and her great grandchildren, William Gant, Weslely Gant, Nora Victorino and Nova Victorino.
She will be remembered for loving her family well, her faith, and her grace through the years of her husband's decline with dementia, the pandemic, and her own health challenges in her later years. Through the pandemic and her last years at the Rehabilitation Center of Lisbon she actively kept up with friends and family and world events with the use of her ipad and smartphone.
