Born in Crowell, Foard, Texas
Ancestors 
Daughter of Delmar Newlin Powell
and Jennie Belle (Clifford) Powell
Sister of
Jack Newlin Powell
Wife of
Van Jackson Elkins Jr
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Wife of
Van Jackson Elkins jr.
— married
31 Mar 1943 in Clovis, Curry, New Mexico, United States
Mother of
Sandra Elkins
Died
at age 83
in Amarillo, Potter, Texas
Profile last modified
| Created 18 Oct 2017
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Biography
She was born in 1921 and passed away in 2005.
Shirley and Van were married 32 years until Van's death in 1975. Shirley then remarried Walter Andrew Hester 1921-2009 2 November 1982 in Amarillo Texas. No children by the second marriage.
Sources
US Census 1930-1940 Texas Birth Index 1903-1997 Texas Marriages 1966-2010 US Social Security Death Index 1935-2014
- My mother; personal records
- birth death and marriage certificates
LDS and family search records
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Shirley by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Shirley:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Shirley by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Shirley:
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~1.56%
Martha (King) Davis
:
Living DNA
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~0.78%
Rachel (Powell) Slaughter :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch ZF8472646 [compare], Ancestry member mars5602
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