Baker City, Oregon
Michelle Shankle, 34, of Baker City, died Jan. 7, 2002, at St. Elizabeth Health Services.
Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave. Pat Brunner of Jehovah’s Witnesses will officiate. Disposition was by cremation at Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Crematory.
Michelle Shankle was born Aug. 7, 1967, in Baker City to Gary Wayne Shankle and Charlotte Ann Bryant. Michelle spent her youth in Baker City. She left briefly as a young adult, living as far away as South Carolina.
She returned to Baker City several years ago to raise her children. She enjoyed the mountains surrounding Baker and went on many hunting trips with family and friends.
Michelle also was an avid pool player. She was very proud of her ability and would challenge anyone to a game and usually would win. She loved football. She kept track of the games and was always rooting for her favorite team, the Oakland Raiders.
Michelle was a plant lover. Her house was full of a variety of plants that were either given to her or that she had rescued from people who did not have her green thumb. She also enjoyed music. There was always music playing in her home. Michelle’s proudest accomplishment was her three beautiful children; her last thoughts were of them and their welfare.
Michelle was loved by many and her memory and legacy will be kept alive by those who loved her and by her children.
She was preceded in death by her father, Gary Wayne Shankle; her grandfather, Frank Chad Shankle; and two cousins, Rodney Lynn Shankle and Katrina Kay Blair.
Survivors include her three children of Baker City, Andrea, Dakota and Ethan; her mother, Charlotte Thomason; two grandmothers, Anne Johnson of Baker City and Martha Whitt and her husband, Jim, of Benton, City, Wash.; a brother, Wesley Shankle of Frankfort, Ky.; two sisters, Desi Bloom and Tonya Stiefvater and her husband, Paul, of Baker City; a nephew, Jordan Shankle of Frankfort, Ky.; a niece, Sasha Bloom of Baker City; two stepbrothers, Peter Papadopoulos of California and George Papadopoulos of Baker City; three uncles, Jerry Shankle, and his wife, Ila, of Fruitland, Idaho, Phillip Shankle and his wife, Marilyn of Lacey, Wash., and Norman Shankle and his wife, Mary, of Weiser, Idaho; five aunts, Brenda Rohner and Theresa Shankle of Prosser, Wash., Doris “Faye” Shankle of Hermiston, Kathy Baker of West Richland, Wash., and Wilma Shankle of Baker City; and numerous cousins.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society through Gray’s West & Co., P.O. Box 726, Baker City, OR 97814.
Used with permission from: Baker City Herald, Baker City, Oregon, January 11, 2002
Transcribed by: Belva Ticknor