Florence M. Shepler

Florence M. Brown Shepler, formerly of Temperance, MI, Port Clinton and Oregon, OH, passed from this world on Saturday, July 2, 2011 at Otterbein-Portage Valley Retirement Center, Pemberville, at the age of 94. Florence was born in Sylvania to Ralph E. and Nellie Phillips Brown and was the eldest of five children. Her siblings included: Dorothy Conrad, Ruth Allen, Ralph E. Brown, Jr., Susan Bill Walters and Arthur Brown, Sr. She married Curtis Shepler, Sr. and the couple had five children: Curt Jr. Joan Ballard, Wadsworth, Sandra Mattier, Oregon, Tom Sr. Nancy Kemp, Pensacola, FL, Kathy Todd Brown, Genoa, and Jack Sr. Charma, Pensacola, FL. Florence lived a full life. She helped raise her five siblings and raised five children of her own. The first car she drove was a Model-T, she got to fly on an airplane, watch a man fly into space and walk on the moon, owned a crank for service telephone and drove a VW Bug. Florence was Gods child, loving each person equally and fully and she never spoke badly of anyone. She will be remembered for her smile, her eagerness to be helpful to all people she met, for lots and lots hugs her remedy for everything sad, for playing rummy and trying to sneak cards that dont play into the game, and for walking hundreds of miles in the halls of her residences watching Wheel and Jeopardy, always ready to give you that special smile. Florence will be sadly missed by her children; thirteen grandchildren, Jennifer Greg Armour, Michael Sheryl Kubiak, Tom Jr., Curt III, Sonya Jason Price, Mark Kubiak, Jacki Steve Stocker, Nathan Angela Holman, Katherine Shepler, Jessica Charles Elliott, Jon, Jack Jr. and Stephanie Shepler; nineteen great grandchildren; one great-great grandchild, as well as many friends she made during her journey on this earth. Visitation will be Wednesday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. in the Walker Funeral Home, 5155 Sylvania Ave., Toledo west of Corey Rd.. Funeral services will be conducted at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, July 7, 2011 at St. John Lutheran Church, 222 Adams St., Port Clinton, OH 43452 with the Rev. James Lehman presiding. Additional visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday in the church and continue until the time of services. Committal rites and burial will take place in Catawba Island Cemetery. A luncheon will follow at the church. Memorials are suggested to the church.