Virginia Shaw

Virginia Lee Neel Shaw

March 4, 1918 – March 1, 2014

Virginia Shaw, 95, of Waco, passed away Saturday, March 1, 2014. Services will be 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 4, 2014 at OakCrest Funeral Home with the Reverend Ron Durham officiating. Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday evening at OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Blvd.

Virginia was born in Waco on March 4, 1918. She was one of six children born to William David Neel and
Lena Rains Neel. At age four she and her family moved to Chalk Bluff where Virginia could be found
helping her father on the farm. She always preferred to be outdoors. Her family later moved to a farm
near Hewitt, and she graduated from Lorena High School. In 1939 she married Charles Wesley Shaw Jr.
and moved to Waco. She took pride in her beautiful yard with many varieties of flowers. For many years
she was a homemaker and then worked for four years at Hillcrest Hospital and the next twenty five
years at Providence Hospital and De Paul.

After retirement in 1987 Virginia spent time taking care of the elderly and was named outstanding volunteer for her work. While living at the retirement community at the Cottages of Oak Springs for seventeen years, she could be found attending all activities and playing dominoes three nights a week. Virginia was an avid baseball fan and never missed watching a Texas Ranger game. She was a member of Youngblood Presbyterian Church in Robinson.

Those preceding Virginia in death are her parents, husband, Charles Wesley Shaw, Jr.; her daughter,
Mary Shaw Noack; granddaughter, Elizabeth Shaw; brothers, William Neel and wife Martha, and Clovis
Neel; sisters, Mildred Moran and husband, Monroe and Dorothy Fick and husband, Harold.

Virginia is survived by her son, Leslie Shaw and wife Nancy; daughter, Frances Shaw Lynch and husband, Larry; son-in-law, Richard Noack and wife Ann; granddaughters, Kathy Noack Isernhagen and husband, Brad, Lori Noack Bodin and husband, Ron, Jennifer Lynch Rountree and husband, Ross, and step-granddaughters, Tracy Dicken and husband, Jeremy and Laura Cox; grandsons, Mike Noack and wife Gloria, Clint Lynch and Tom Shaw. She is also survived by a brother, Boyd Neel and wife, Anita and a sister-in-law, Virginia Neel. Virginia is survived by twelve great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Clint Lynch, Tom Shaw, Brad Isernhagen, Ron Bodin, Ross Rountree, and Mike Noack.

The family would like to express their appreciation to the staff of Providence Hospice for their care of Virginia.

Memorials may be sent to Compassion Ministries, Carleen Bright Arboretum, Providence Hospice or the charity of choice.

The Guest Book is available at www.oakcrestwaco.com