Shirley J. Sherman

QUEENSBURY – Shirley J. Sherman, 85, laid down her cutting scissors for the last time on June 15, 2016.

Shirley was born in Granville on January 14, 1931. The family later moved the Glens Falls where she graduated from Glens Falls High School and took a job at Kresge’s Department Store.

She and her husband Robert married and they raised two sons and a daughter in South Glens Falls before moving to their dream home in the town of Adirondack in 1975. After Robert passed in 1991 Shirley returned to the area, taking a job at So-Fro Fabrics in Queensbury, where she shared her love of crochet and needlepoint with many loyal customers. Shirley worked for Wal-Mart for 18 years.

Shirley made many friends there and will always be remembered as someone who loved good conversation over a hot cup of coffee (usually with a cigarette, before she quit in 2012). Her no-nonsense attitude and wry sense of humor will be missed by her many friends and her family.

In passing, Shirley joins her husband Robert, her mother Marnette and Alfred Hance, and her sisters Lillian Dunlevy and Alberta Cavanaugh, her brother Billy Hanse and her grandson Christopher Sherman.

She is survived by her brother, Robert Hance and his wife Betty; her son, Wade and his wife Jeanne; her daughter, Valerie Finkbeiner and her husband Kim; her son Joel and his wife Martha; she was also the proud grandmother of six grandchildren; and four great-grand-children; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. She will be missed.

Services will be held in private.

Shirley’s family would like to acknowledge the care and compassion of the staff at the Stanton Nursing Center.

In Lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to the Open Door Soup Kitchen, 47 Lawrence St, Glens Falls, NY 12801, the Glens Falls Code Blue Shelter, C/O The Open Door, 47 Lawrence St., Glens Falls, NY 12801 or the charity of your choice.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Carleton Funeral Home, Inc., 68 Main Street in Hudson Falls.