Shirley A. Stephens

March 5, 1939 - August 31, 2018

Shirley A. Stephens was born March 5, 1939 in Guatemala. She traveled thru Panama to get to the United States. Lived in New York when she was 12 years old and moved to Los Angeles, California at the age of 16. Where on a Sunday morning while waiting on her front porch to go to church, two guys said Hello and one of them was Glenn David Stephens. Shortly after, they got married on April 09, 1956 in a church on Wilshire Blvd. They were blessed with five children Glenn David, Michael (deceased), Shiranie, Donna and Sean. Years later they would have ten grandchildren, Lori, Michael, Jaclyn, Angel, Carlos, Veronica, Randy, Vincent, Matty and Ruzz and fifteen great-grandchildren Gabriel, Giovanni, Giorgio, Viory, Orion, Liam, Elias, Carlos, Zyanya, Nayeli, Jacoby, Gabriel, Natalie, Bella, Ian and Anthony. Shirley was an artist. She loved painting, sewing furniture upholstery, knitting and breeding Chihuahua dogs. She was a great swimmer and once said that she almost went to join the Olympics. She had a deep appreciation for life and loved all living things; she had an assortment of all kinds of animals throughout her lifetime and a love for gardening. Shirley was a devoted Jehovah ’s Witness since 1969. Her religion was the core of her happiness. Later on in her life she had to give up the things she enjoyed doing because of her loss of eye sight and was legally blind, but still enjoyed going to service and visiting family especially her grandchildren.