Shirley Ann Fahey

Shirley was born in Seattle, Washington and raised in Port Angeles, WA. She attended Roosevelt High School in Port Angeles. She met her husband Dennis Fahey her senior year in college while attending Western Washington University. After two years of teaching elementary school in south Seattle the couple were married in Port Angeles in 1955. They were married 68 years. Shortly after their marriage they moved to Portland, Oregon and started their family of nine children. Together Shirley and Dennis raised 6 sons and 3 daughters, Mark (Kim), Bruce, Scott (Jane), Paula, Greg (Cathy), David (Sylvia), Mary, James, & Linda (Shawn) Davis. They have 11 grandchildren, and 2 great-grandchildren.

After all of Shirley’s children were school age, Shirley went back to college and earned her master’s degree. She then returned to teaching and taught special education at Monmouth Elementary School, in Monmouth, OR. Until her retirement in 1988.

Shirley is preceded in death by her parents Lloyd McMicken (Father), Mabel (Helgeson) McMicken (mother), and her brother Rolland (Mick) McMicken, all from Port Angeles, WA.

Our mother was the heart and soul of our family. Shirley’s greatest joy was her family. She loved to play endless card games, parlor games, and loved to read. Shirley was always willing and eager to learn new things. She took harmonica lessons in her 80’s, followed by learning to play the ukulele. She also loved to golf, play tennis, and swim. One of her favorite passions was to perform in plays and musicals at their winter home in Mesa, AZ. She and Dennis spent many delightful years during the winter months being “snowbirds’. She loved to travel and stay at various elder hostels.

Shirley was a devout Catholic and member of the St. Edwards Catholic Church in Keizer, Oregon.

Funeral arrangements are being handled by Virgil T Golden Funeral Service.

Shirley’s Funeral Rosary and Mass will be held at St. Edwards Catholic Church in Keizer, OR on Friday January 26 at 10 am. She will then be laid to rest at Willamette National Cemetery.