Rosalee Joyce (Shifflet) Smith (1941 - 2021)

Born 30 Jan 1941 in Sacramento, Sacramento, CA

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Died 14 Dec 2021 at age 80 in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States

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Biography

Rosalee Joyce Shifflet was born on 30 January 1941, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, to Harold Shifflet and widow Bessie Beatrice (Brown) Woodmansee.^[1]

By 1950, Rosalee's parents moved the family to Gridley, Butte, California, where she grew up.^[2] The family was a member of the Gridley Evangelical Church and in the Youth Group of that church, she first met her eventual husband.^[3]

She was married on 3 September 1960, in Chico, Butte, California, to Kenny Lee Smith,^[4] son of Everett LeRoy Smith and Virgie Almina Ogle.^[5] They immediately moved to San Luis Obispo where Ken studied Architectural Engineering and Rosalee was an accountant. Then two years later they returned to Chico, Bute, California.

They produced two children.

• Living son.^[6]
• Living daughter.^[7]

She passed away peacefully on 14 December 2021, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, in her home of only one year.^[8][3]

Sources

1. ↑ Sacramento Birth Certificates, Sacramento, CA, Rosalee Joyce Shifflet, Book 93, page 234. (Rosalee's birth date and place and various information on her parents.
2. ↑ "United States Federal Census, 1950," National Archives at Washington, D.C. Gridley, Butte, CA; Roll: 2743; Page: 21; Enumeration District: 4-51B. (Free Ancestry.com View). (With her parents and brother Rodger.)
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} (Rosalee Smith Memorial Program).
4. ↑ California Marriage Index, 1960-1985. Microfiche. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California, for Kenny Lee Smith and Rosalee Joyce Shifflet
5. ↑ Los Angeles Vital Records, Los Angeles, CA, for the birth of Kenny Lee Smith.
6. ↑ California Birth Index for Living
7. ↑ California Birth Index for Living
8. ↑ (Personal Knowledge of Kent Smith), present at the time of her death.

• "Personal knowledge of Kent Smith," This is my mother and I have direct personal knowledge of many of these facts.
• "Rosalee Joyce Smith Memorial Program," Memorial Service, Rosalee Joyce Smith, January 29, 2022.
  
  A widowed Bessie Beatrice Brown Woodmansee was the mother of Roberta and Ralph when she married the milk man, Harold Shifflet, and they added Rodger and then a few years later, Rosalee in Sacramento, CA, on January 30, 1941. Roberta and Ralph each predeceased Rosalee in passing, and we lost Rodger to illness two days before Rosalee passed on December 14, 2021, peacefully in our home in Boise Idaho.
  
  Growing up in the Gridley Evangelical Church, Rosalee’s love was doing financial books and was a bookkeeper as a sophomore in Gridley High School.
  
  She met Ken in the Youth Group of that Gridley church. He was 153 days younger than her, so he was an “underclassman” in school. They married on September 3, 1960, in Chico, CA, and immediately moved to San Luis Obispo where Ken studied Architectural Engineering and she was an accountant.
  
  They moved back to Chico in 1962 where she worked with another accountant and Ken finished school. Their firstborn, [son redacted], came on March 8, 1964, before they moved to Fremont, CA, where Ken started his teaching career. On December 28, 1965 they were blessed with [daughter redacted].
  
  Rosalee went back to work “just to make a down payment on a home” and retired 46 years later in Pleasanton, CA, as an accountant and an EA for the IRS but continued to work part-time until she felt her memory was affecting her work.
  
  She loved being in Hawai’i, where she and Ken spent 591 total days, as well as cruising, with 189 days at sea. She loved the many new friends that they both met on those many trips.
  
  She loved sewing and enjoyed making shopping bags, coin purses and quilts, which she sold at shows with Kim. To keep her mind “functioning,” she spent hours playing Sudoku.
  
  [Her surviving family has been redacted for privacy as of December 2023.]