Shirley Ruth Bell Engler passed away on January 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas. She was born to Walda (Scherff) and Robert Crane Bell on May 22, 1920 in Toledo Ohio. She was preceded in death by her parents and her beloved husband of sixty-six years, Donald Robert Engler. Shirley is survived by her daughter Judi Siff of Houston, Texas; her son David Engler and his wife Annette Mott of Bowdoinham, Maine; grandsons Daniel Engler and his wife Sahra Halpern, Peter Engler and his companion Zoe Howell-Martin, and John Engler and his wife Tempy Keller; and great grandchildren Hanna Engler and Adam Engler.

As a child Shirley spent summers riding horses at her grandparents’ farm in Milton Center, Ohio. She graduated from DeVilbiss High School in Toledo before attending business school. During world war II she served her country as a telephone operator. Following marriage and the birth of her two children, she was a homemaker until the family moved to Seguin, Texas in 1960. Shirley then pursued a secretarial career until her retirement from the Guadalupe Blanco River Authority in 1985. In the following decades, she and Donald enjoyed many years of sailing, traveling and attending reunions with friends from the past.

A private family service will be held in Toledo, Ohio at a later date. Those who wish may make a memorial donation to the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, P.O. Box 4464, Houston TX 77210.