Funeral service for Shirley Geraldine Jeffress will be 1:30 pm Tuesday, June 28, 2016 in the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Bart Horner officiating.

Burial will follow in Post Cemetery, Fort Sill.

The family will greet friends from 6-8 pm, Monday, June 27, 2016 at the funeral home.

Shirley G. Jeffress, age 74, of Trimble, MO, passed away Friday, June 24, 2016 in Kansas City, Missouri.

She was born September 14, 1941 in Monet, Missouri to Barney and Dorothy (Johnson) Ballou.

She married MAJ (Retired) Charles Edwin Jeffress on February 19, 1960 at Old Post Chapel.

He died February 3, 2001.

Mrs. Jeffress attended various schools and lived in many towns and states.  She worked for the Lawton Public Schools as a cafeteria cook for 13 years at Crosby Park, Edison, Garfield and Hoover elementary schools, Security Bank of Lawton, and at Northside Nutrition Center. She and her family moved by military orders and lived in Germany, Okinawa Japan, Maryland, California, and Oklahoma.

Shirley dearly loved her children and grandchildren and lived her life sacrificially giving herself for her family and others.  She was called grandma by everyone.

Survivors include her daughter Cathy Roney and husband Don, son David Jeffress and wife Sara, son Bob Jeffress and wife Michellene, sister Helen Liles, and many grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, sisters, Dorothy, Donus, and brothers Albert, Don, Gene, and Larry.  Memorial contributions may be made to the Baptist Foundation Children's Home in Oklahoma City.