Garden Grove Cemetery

Prague, Pottatomie County, Oklahoma

© Parks Brothers Funeral Home
Submitted by: Terry Dudley

Sharon Kay Newman Shetley

August 20, 1948 ~ February 9, 2024

Sharon Kay Shetley left this life on February 9, 2024 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at the age of 75 with her family surrounding her. She was born Sharon Kay Newman on August 20, 1948 in Jeffersonville, Indiana. She was the daughter of Harry Hiram "Bud" and Dorothy Pearl (Singer) Newman. Sharon grew up in Southern Indiana, mostly in Jeffersonville, but due to the nature of her father's work with the Army Corp of Engineers she transferred her senior year from Jeffersonville High School and graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 1966. She met Bill Gray on a blind date with a friend and they were married on Sharon's 18th birthday, August 20, 1966.

In 1981, Sharon and her family relocated to Shawnee, Oklahoma. Sharon worked for the Town and Country Vet Clinic for several years before she decided to further her education through the Gordon Cooper Nursing Program. She graduated there in 1989 as a Licensed Practical Nurse and went to work at the VA Hospital in Oklahoma City the same year. Sharon proudly served those who served our country for nearly 20 years. In 1991, Bill and Sharon parted ways and Sharon moved to OKC to continue her career at the VA Hospital. While working at the VA, she met Billy Edward Shetley and the two were married on May 21, 2005. Together, they made their home in Harrah, Oklahoma. Sharon retired from the VA Hospital in 2007.

If you knew Sharon, you loved her, but there was no doubt that she loved you more, and she would tell you. She loved spending time with her family and especially her grandchildren. She enjoyed having lunch dates with her friends. Sharon was always very particular about a well kept house and her appearance was no different. When you saw her, there was never a hair out of place and she was always picture perfect. Her family knew she had her standing hair and nail appointments and she did not miss them. Sharon always looked her very best on the outside, but her huge heart made her so beautiful on the inside as well.

Sharon was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Kenneth Johnson; two sisters, Beverly Johnson and Marie Sanders and her brother-in-law, Sam White.

Those left to cherish her memory are her loving husband of eighteen years, Billy Edward Shetley of the home; two daughters, Deana Stewart and her husband, Ronnie, of Shawnee and Kim Nash of Prague; three grandchildren, Colton Ronald Stewart and his wife, Shawnee, Austin James Nash and his fiance, Delaney Cornforth and William Lane Stewart and his wife, Maddie; three great-grandchildren, Tuff Ray Blasingame, Letty Lane Stewart and Lindy May Stewart; two sisters, Eleanor Ruth White and Harriet Eugenia "Jeanie" Stewart and her husband, Mike and a host of family and friends, that she loved dearly.