Shirley Mansfield, 1911 - 2002

MANSFIELD, LILLY, HARRINGTON

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 2/26/2012 at 18:19:21

SHIRLEY MANSFIELD

Shirley Mansfield, 90, of Spencer, formally of Westfield, died Friday, July 26, 2002 at the Spencer hospital.

Services were held Monday July 29 at Westfield Congregational United church of Christ in Westfield with Pastor Steve Jewett officiating. Burial was in riverside Cemetery in Akron.

Mrs. Mansfield was born August 21, 1911, the daughter of Stanley P. and Mabel A. (Harrington) Lilly in Westfield. She received her teaching certificate from Morningside college and taught in rural Iowa and South Dakota schools before teaching in Westfield. She married James Mansfield December 15, 1938 in Merrill. Mr. Mansfield died December 12, 1992.

Mrs. Mansfield was a member of the Westfield Congregational Church and Westfield Women’s Aid. In her free time she loved to watch sports, most of all baseball and basketball, working in her flower garden, camping and spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Survivors include two daughters, Sue Crosby and her husband John of Lake Park and Kay Rosacker and her husband Jim of Webb, IA; one sister, Audrey Crouch of Spencer; one sister-in-law, Nella Lilly of Westfield; six grandchildren, Melissa Bauman and her husband Chad, Martin Rosacker and his wife Diane, Matthew Rosacker and his wife Erin, Michael Rosacker and his fiancée Kaycee, Trisha Ingham and her husband Kirk, John Rosacker III and his wife Trinity; five great-grandchildren Taylor, Tara, Kyle, Clay and Charley; two step-great-grandchildren, Dusty and Robby; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband; one son Robert; one brother Wallace Lilly and one sister Evelyn Banks.

Akron Register-Tribune
Thursday, August 1, 2002
Akron, Iowa