Dec 18, 2022

Shirley L. Walters, 86, of Monongahela, died Friday, December 16, 2022, in ProMedica Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation, McMurray.

She was born July 29, 1936 in Monongahela, the daughter of the late Alfred and Amelia “Millie” Chevine Loutitt.

Shirley was a 1955 graduate of Monongahela High School. In her younger years, Shirley played amateur softball for Van Voorhis and won the championship in 1962. For several years she was employed at Isaly’s in Monongahela and the Hanger Factory in New Eagle. She retired from the Ringgold school district where she was employed in the cafeteria at the Carroll Junior High School. She was a former member of the Ginger Hill Grange. Her favorite pastimes include bowling with several area leagues, playing cards, riding snowmobiles, quads, going to country music jam sessions and spending time at Eat’n Park. Shirley loved spending time with her family, especially vacationing in Myrtle Beach and going camping in Emporium and Greene County.

She is survived by her daughter, Joyce Lynne Protz of Monongahela; twin granddaughters, Jamie Lynne and Josie Lynne Protz and their father Jim Protz; sister, Betty Marynchak of New Eagle; sister-in-law, Frances “Poochie” Loutitt of Monongahela; aunt, Norma Fantasia of Fla.; special nieces, Kim Van Voorhis and husband Jim and Darlene Marynchak; special nephew, Rich Loutitt; and numerous other nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, William “Mandy” Wesley Walters who died October 1, 2013; sister, Gloria Burgoyne; brothers, Charles and Richard Loutitt; nephews, Jeffrey and Charles Loutitt, and John Rand; sisters-in-law, Betty Sutherland and husband Clyde, and Antoinette “Babe” Loutitt; brothers-in-law, Charles Walters and wife Dorothy and George Marynchak.

Friends will be received from 12 to 8 p.m. on Monday, December 19, in the Frye Funeral Home, Inc., 427 West Main Street, Monongahela, where services will be held on Tuesday, December 20, at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Mark Woomer officiating. Interment will follow in the Monongahela Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to Shriners Hospital for Children, 1645 W. Eighth Street, Erie, PA 16505 (www.shrinerschildren.org). Expressions of sympathy may be made to the family at www.fryefuneralhome.com