Shirley Briley Worley

Shirley Briley Worley

was born in Hardin County, Tennessee on April 15, 1937 the daughter of the late Lester Donald and Ina Pauline Blasingim Briley.

On June 12, 1967 she was united in marriage to C. L. Worley, who preceded his wife in death on August 4, 2001.

Shirley worked as a clerk for Wood's Department Store, formerly The Thrift Store and also the Cotton Patch, both in Savannah, Tennessee. She was a member of Nixon First Pentecostal Church since 1967. Shirley had no children of her own but she grand mothered her nieces and nephews. She loved her late husband and her two stepdaughters, Ruth Ann Hughes and Cathy Boeklen.

Shirley departed this life on Monday, August 9, 2021 at the home of her sister Patty in Savannah, Tennessee at the age of 84 years, 3 months and 25 days.

She is survived by her two stepdaughters, Ruth Ann Hughes and her husband Bobby of Alta Loma, California and Cathy Boeklen and her husband Richard of Spring Hill, Tennessee; step grandchildren, Robert Hughes, Jennifer Hughes Dominguez, Jackie Sevier, Flora Strawbridge, John Winborn, Christie White, Jessica Cole, and Joe Winborn; 15 step great grandchildren; sisters, Johnnie Kate Hendon of Memphis, Tennessee, and Patty Barham and Margie Fowler, both of Savannah, Tennessee; and brothers, L. D. Briley of Crump, Tennessee and Danny Briley and Maxie Briley, both of Savannah, Tennessee.

In addition to her parents and husband, Shirley was preceded in death by five sisters, Mildred Worley, Willa Jean Briley, Reba Nell Clayton, Donna Lou Fouse, and Joyce Briley, and one brother, Tommy Joe Briley.