Dolores Shaw

GARVIN — Services for Dolores Anita (McClain) Shaw, 89, of Garvin will be at 1 p.m. today at Tracy Area Funeral Home. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Interment is in Bethel Cemetery, rural Garvin. tephens Funeral Service – Tracy Area Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.

She passed away with family at her side, on Friday, June 11, 2021 at Sanford Tracy Medical Center. 

Dolores Anita (McClain) Shaw was born Sept. 20, 1931, in Tracy, to Armour and Agnes (Jansen) McClain. She started her education in a country school near Tracy, and later graduated from Tracy High School. After high school, Dolores worked for a short time at Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. as a switchboard operator. On Dec. 13, 1950, Dolores married the love of her life, Curtis Shaw at the Norwegian Lutheran Church in Westbrook. They lived by Milroy for a few years before settling on a farm near Garvin where they raised quarter horses. The last three years were spent living in Country View in Walnut Grove. Dolores enjoyed tending to her flowers, gardening, and canning everything she grew. She was a great cook, and loved sewing. Dolores loved watching the baby colts on the farm, and she enjoyed feeding and watching many different types of birds. 

Dolores is survived by her husband, Curt; children: Bradley (Mary) Shaw, Jacqueline (Thomas) Olson, Bryan Shaw, Brent (Deb) Shaw, Jill (Jim) Skurat, Barry (Robin Dorenkamper) Shaw; nine grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; sister Beverly Tweedt; sisters-in-law Linda and Lois Shaw; and brother-in-law Lee Shaw. 

She is preceded in death by her parents, grandson Corey Olson, sister Shirley Peterson, and brother Welling McClain.