Dooley, Shirley Mae

Shirley Mae Dooley, 85, died Aug. 17, 2010, four years to the 
day that her husband of 60 years passed away in 2006.

She passed from this life with loving arms surrounding her, 
and with the blessings of her family. 

A rosary will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Evergreen 
Memorial Chapel. A memorial Mass will be at 1:30 p.m. at Our 
Lady of Guadalupe. A reception will be afterward in her 
backyard. Interment will be a private family gathering at 
Angelus Memorial Park.

Shirley was born June 25, 1925, in Denver, Colo., to Dorothy 
(Davies) and Richard McGlochlin. She was one of three 
daughters.

When Shirley was a teenager, her family moved to California 
during World War II, where everyone participated in the war 
efforts. Shirley worked in the shipyard office, while her mother 
was a ship welder. Everyone put money in the pot each week 
for groceries to help make ends meet, because food rationings 
were common.

In 1940, the family moved to Juneau seeking financial 
opportunity. In 10th grade, Shirley became an usherette at the 
20th Century Theater and made $50 per month. She later 
worked at the Baranof Hotel as a desk/telephone operator. 
There she met Bob Stewart, who would become her first 
husband in 1944. Bob was killed three months later in the 
Battle of the Bulge. After moving Outside to be with Bob's 
family, she returned and worked for Alaska Airlines.

Shirley met her second husband, Tom, in Juneau, and they 
married in 1946. In 1947, they moved to Anchorage, where 
she worked for Alaska Plumbing and Heating. In 1952 they 
started Glass Sash and Door Supply. They resided in the same 
home in Turnagain for over 54 years. Shirley was a 
homemaker and community volunteer, and after her children 
were older, came to work at the family business as an office 
and credit manager, where she worked until health issues 
forced her retirement in 2001.

Shirley was a private person who endured many hardships, but 
found her strength in her family and inner faith. She welcomed 
everyone into her home, and always offered a cup of coffee 
that included good conversation and contagious laughter. She 
shied away from attention, listened to others more than she 
talked of herself, rarely complained, and was devoted to her 
family and home.

Shirley was preceded in death by her husband, Tom; sister, 
Naomi; daughter, Sandra; and grandson, Thomas. She is 
survived by her sister, Bettye; sons, Tom (Donna) Dooley, Vince 
(Bridget) Dooley and Jim Dooley; daughters, Ann (Dan) 
Krogseng and Patricia (Richard) Heroux; as well as 10 
grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, the youngest due 
in 2011.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Alaska Center 
for the Blind and Visually Impaired or the American Diabetes 
Association .

Arrangements are with Janssen's Evergreen Memorial Chapel; 
www.janssenfuneralhomes.com

Published in adn.com from August 26 to August 27, 2010