Wilbur Dale Shellenbarger
1923 - 2001 (77 years)-
Name Wilbur Dale Shellenbarger Born 24 Oct 1923 Continental, Putnam County, Ohio 
[1, 2, 3, 4] Gender Male Census 1950 Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio Occupation field engineer for telephone company [1, 4] Died 13 Oct 2001 Oak Ridge, Tennessee [2, 3, 4] Buried Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Hancock County, Ohio [3] Person ID I343 Hiltner Last Modified 18 Apr 2023
Father Lewis Carroll Shellenbarger, b. 25 Mar 1900, Monroe Township, Putnam County, Ohio , d. 12 Dec 1969 (Age 69 years) Mother Martha Schafer, b. 11 Jun 1897, Monroe Township, Putnam County, Ohio , d. 26 Nov 1993, Bluffton, Allen County, Ohio (Age 96 years) Married 14 Oct 1919 Putnam County, Ohio [4, 5] Family ID F113 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Dorothy Jean Branan, b. 23 Nov 1926, Hancock County, Ohio , d. 18 May 1997, Lee County, Florida (Age 70 years) Last Modified 27 Feb 2022 Family ID F148 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 24 Oct 1923 - Continental, Putnam County, Ohio 
Census - 1950 - Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio 
Died - 13 Oct 2001 - Oak Ridge, Tennessee 
Buried - - Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Hancock County, Ohio = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - Wilbur ‘Bill’ Shellenbarger
(‘Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me ‘ – Dickinson)
October 13, 2001
Wilbur ‘Bill’ Shellenbarger, 77, of Fort Myers, died on October 13, 2001, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Bill was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on December 23, 1923. He married Dorothy Jean Branan on July 17, 1946, and she died on May 18, 1977. He then married Katy Howell on July 29, 2000, and she survives.
Also surviving are a son, Mark (Melanie) of Denver, Colorado; three daughters, Jill Toepfer and Sue (Tim) Grant of Toledo, Ohio, and Jodi (Pat) Kitchin of Houston, Texas; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Bill was an active member of the Forest Country Club, the Fort Myers Kiwanis Club and the Cypress Lake United Methodist Church.
Bill, an electrical engineer, retired from the Ohio Bell Telephone Company in 1984 after 36 years of service. He was a U.W. Navy veteran of World War II and a graduate of Notre Dame University.
A memorial service to celebrate Bill’s life will be held at Cypress Lake United Methodist Church in Fort Myers on Saturday, November 10, 2001 at 3:00 p.m.
The family requests that memorials be made to the Cypress Lake United Methodist Church or the Hospice of Southwest Florida.
News-Press, Fort Myers, Florida. Friday, 9 November 2001.
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