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My mom loved daisies, roses, color red, coffee double cream, her red harley flh, her yahama guitar, singing, pepsi, pepperoni pizza, pasta, pumpkin and lemon pie, her buttertarts, swimming, dancing, yatzee/crib/euchre, pool/snooker, darts, ships/airplanes, buttet scotch ripple, strawberries and milk, kelbasa, country rock music, volunteering, donating.

TRUEST and purest heart....you are missed like crazy today more than yesterday!♡

Shirley had the rarest form of breast cancer and it was the most aggressive form.  AFTER several operations and rounds of chemo and hot rod therapy she lost her right breast to the disease.  She remissioned and in three years it returned in 1994. Cancer was also suspected in her Liver with nine tumours appearing (appears in breast first but starts in Liver).  She was the bravest woman I know and will ever know.  Shirley battled with great strength and determination and passed away  to Cancers awefull grip on July 19th in 1995 after 6 year long battle.

We celebrate Shirley on July 19th, 2015 upon this her 20th year since she left us.

We miss your smile, laughter, hugs, tickles, your deadly pinch (those that received her pinch know what i am laughing about)  ok- when she truly liked you, especially men (friends not strangers lol) she would come up behind you and PINCH your butt), miss you kicking my ass at every single card game, riding on your pretty awesome 883 or your pretty red FLH on our harley rides, our chinese dinner girls getaways, miss our talks, walks, cuddles and most of all I miss your HEART. 

Shirley was an artist both drawing, pottery and guitarist/singer.   She appeared on local TV telethons as an entertainer and in Finger Lakes Motorcycle rallies she and dad would entertain 1,000s.

Shirley loved animals and taught daughter Joanne's dog Diamond,  to speak.

SHIRLEY loved gardening was always in the huge veggie garden at our 1st home 170 now 116 Parklane , until  dad made a full grass yard instead,  to planting flowers in the beds at 830 Muskoka Road South her last place of residence-NOW Peters Players.

She loved to donate and volunteer time to the legion and she belonged to the Muskoka CB Operator club and the Retreads and HOG.

SHIRLEY belonged to The Segwun Stompers country band and there was always a party country style at the legion or in our weekly kitchen jams sessions.

Shirley loved to swim, watch the airplanes and boats come in, I remember many nights sitting by Muskoka airport or while picking strawberries by the airport watching planes land and take off or sitting on the wharf watching for the Segwun to dock.  

Shirley was a champion Snooker, Pool, Darts, cribbage, Euchre and Bowling.



 

Making a positive addition to the Gravenhurst community all of her life.  From manager, waitress, care provider, RNA, to Office Admin. Shirley worked at Muskoka Nursing home until she transfered to The Martin Manor now Gravenhurst Manor.  She bought her first Harley Davidson FLH after obtaining her bike license in 1983 and traveled every summer to Finger Lakes New York with Dad, Deb & Joanne with friends, to Nashville and everywhere in between.  She left her nursing dream to assist my fathers dream.  Moe's Service Centre, where Peters Players now sits, she was the woman behind the man of one of tne most successful businesses in Muskoka, in which was well known throughout North America.
 

Shirley met my dad Moe when she was 14, in 1955 & the two corted until Halloween.  On Oct 31st 1959 @ the age of 19, she married my father Morris (Moe) Ray Draper- son of Vic and Beatrice (Conway) Draper at The United Church Gravenhurst, to a full house of family and friends.  She loved to travel the globe every chance on the harley.  Shirley was a manager at the original Bus Terminal (Ontario Northland) on Bethune Drive Gravenhurst, now an empty lot nearest the RC Legion, was head waitress and bartender of Muskoka Sands Resort (Taboo) before becoming an RNA and persuing a career as a nurse.

Shirley loved passionately to care for others in need, had a huge heart and loved to volunteer outside her paid career. She cared for the very well known Muskoka artist, who had Muscular Dystrophy, until Tony Winters passed away.

She gave birth to a son who was still born in 1965, had a daughter Deb Draper on June 27th,1970 and second a daughter Joanne on Sept 10, 1973 and now has 2 grandaughters, Shelby-18 and Hailey-14.




 

SHIRLEY was born January 21st in 1941 to parents Norman and Elizabeth Plested in Rosseau Ontario and was born an identical twin with Gertrude who passed away at birth and was younger sister to brothers Gerald (who passed away at 14) & her  big brother Rev. William Plested who passed away May 1999.

She grew up in Rosseau as a small child then family moved to Gravenhurst and resided on the Doe Lake Road, with William leaving for Toronto to become an Old Roman Catholic Priest- leaving Shirley the only sibling at home.   After a devasting fire,  the family moved into the downtown of Gravenhurst.