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- Class of 1937 PACS
CHRISTINE A. SHIRES NURSE’S AIDE
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - March 1, 1999
Christine Ahrendson Shires, 82, Sunrise Nursing Home, Oswego, formerly of Pulaski, died Saturday in Oswego.
Mrs. Shires retired after 15 years as a nurse’s aide at Oswego Hospital. She lived in Pulaski and Mexico before moving to Oswego.
Born May 26, 1916, in Watertown, daughter of Charles and Maude Farmer Ahrendson, she graduated from Pulaski Academy in 1938.
She was a deaconess at the Church of the Nazarene, Fulton, a former Girl Scout leader in Mexico and an airplane spotter during World War II.
Surviving are a daughter, Judith Fultz, Oswego; three stepdaughters, Erma Edwards, Grovene Dolan and Polly Mullen, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Her second husband, Ralph A. Walton, her third husband, George R. Steele, her fourth husband, Emery Shires, and a granddaughter died before her.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Dain-Cullinan Funeral Home, 112 E. Second St., Oswego. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery, Oswego.
Calling hours are from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Donations may be made to Church of the Nazarene, 914 Utica St., Oswego, N.Y. 13126.
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1916 - 1999 (82 years)