Shirley Jenkins Obituary
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She attended school in Tampa, FL, and Manatee County, graduating from Lincoln Memorial High School in 1966.
Shirley worked many years for Anderson Window Company in Bradenton, FL, as a line supervisor.
Shirley loved her family and enjoyed sewing. She was a faithful member of the Jehovah's Witnesses Organization.
Shirley was preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Etta Jenkins; only daughter, LaKeeva Craddock Peterson; sister, Katie McKeever; and brother, Freddick Jenkins.
She leaves to cherish her precious memories and to carry on her legacy: her granddaughters, Erin Carnes, Alis Peterson, and Kenya Pinkney; sisters, Patricia Shannon, Lollie Mae Jenkins-Liverpool, and Joyce Ann Jenkins McNeil; brothers, Robert Jenkins, Jr., and Marion Jenkins; and a host of great-grands, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, and cousins.
A special thanks to sister, Patricia Shannon, and faithful cousin, Bettye Holmes Presha, caretaker, Flora Killings, and special friends, Viola Archie Holmes and Birdie Brinson.
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