This memorial website was created in memory of, Shellie Owens Winter. A sister, a daughter, a wife and mother, born on February 8, 1954. She passed away on April 26, 2014 after a long battle with ovarian cancer. It is encouraged that you leave thoughts and memories of your time with Shellie, as well as wishes for her family.

Shellie was born in Hartford, CT, a daughter of Barbara Perkins Owens and Robert G. Owens.  She lived in several different locations as she grew up including New Delhi, India, where her father was a Fulbright Scholar at the Ministry of Education there.

Shellie graduated from SUNY Potsdam with a bachelors degree in Music Education and from SUNY Oswego with a masters degree in Curriculum and Instruction.  She retired from the Pinellas County School District, after 14 years of elementary school teaching.

She is survived by her husband of 36 years, Walter H. Winter, and by two children:  Brian W. Winter, CPT, USA at Ft. Hood, in Colleen, Texas and Sharon I. Winter of Largo, FL.  Shellie is also survived by her beloved sister, Sydney Owens, of Brentwood, TN, and her father, Robert G. Owens, of Fort Myers, FL.  She was predeceased by her mother, Barbara Perkins Owens in 2011.

It is requested that, in leu of flowers, her friends donate blood if they can. Blood transfusions are important for those fighting cancer and your gift may provide assistance to someone in need. If you are unable to donate blood at your local blood center, please consider a gift in her name with any of the following:

Morton Plant Meese Foundation (https://give.mpmfoundation.org/donate)

Pinellas Education Foundation (https://www.pinellaseducation.org/)

The American Cancer Society (http://www.cancer.org/)

Moffitt Cancer Center (https://eforms.moffitt.org/donation.aspx?typeid=3)

Celma Mastry Ovarian Cancer Foundation (http://www.ovariancancerfoundation.org/foundation/donation.html)