BORN

1937

DIED

2017

FUNERAL HOME

Resthaven Funeral Home & Cemetery

5740 West 19th Street

Lubbock, Texas

Shirley Ragland Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on Nov. 8, 2017.

Graveside Services for Shirley Ragland, 79 of Lubbock, will be held at 2pm Saturday, November 11, at Resthaven Cemetary, under direction of Resthaven Funeral Home. Family visitation will be held Friday evening November 10th at Resthaven from 6 to 8pm.

She passed away Wednesday November 8th, at 2:45 am at University Medical Center in Lubbock.

Shirley Weathers was born December 19th, 1937 in Morton Texas to Elbert and Thursie Weathers. She attended school at Three Way, and Muleshoe, graduating from Muleshoe High School in 1956.

Shirley moved to California in 1956. She owned and operated Shirley Ragland Realty in Solvang, California. She moved to Lubbock in 1982, and managed Pat Walkers', later selling real estate. She retired in 2001, from the Texas Tech Health Science Center in Lubbock, after 14 years.

She was preceeded in death by her parents, Elbert Weathers in 1938, and her mother, Thursie Reid in 2015, one sister, Maqueline Ballard, and a very special friend, Sam Cox, in 2001.

Survivors include 3 brothers, Henry Reid and wife Sherron of Lubbock, Gerald Reid and wife Jessica of Andrews, and Wallace Reid of San Rafael California. 1 Sister, Glenda Tocci of Dennisport (Cape Cod) Mass., and many nieces and nephews.

Online condolences may be offered on our website at www.resthavenfuneralhome.com. Arrangements under the direction of Resthaven Funeral Home & Memorial Park, Lubbock, TX.

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November 13, 2017

erica reid

I love you soo much aunt Shirley.. we will never forget you you have always been soo good to my kiddos and me.. you will forever be missed beautiful love you always fly high my sweet angel love you always till we meet again..

November 8, 2017

we Re praying for yall if there is anything we can do let us know. Bill &Ann Neher

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