{"id":1736,"date":"2018-03-31T17:10:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T17:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=1736"},"modified":"2022-09-23T12:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T17:25:37","slug":"shirley-ward","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/shirley-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirley Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shirley Ward was among Tom&#8217;s classmates at Greenville High School.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/greenville-illinois-1941\/january-10-1941-greenville-illinois\/\">In Tom&#8217;s letter of January 10, 1941 to Zoe Foran<\/a>, he writes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/robert-m-blizzard-md\/\">Bobs<\/a> <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1736_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1736_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1736_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1736_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1736_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1736_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/robert-m-blizzard-md\/\">Bob Blizzard<\/a>, Tom&#8217;s friend<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1736_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1736_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script>trying to fall in love again this time with Shirley Ward he sort of held back because he thought she was too young but Bill B. and Baker seemed to do O.K., so he has decided to try.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1737\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-31-at-11.42.12-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1737\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-31-at-11.42.12-AM-1024x545.png\" alt=\"Shirley Ann Ward Greenville High School Yearbook Picture, 1944\" width=\"474\" height=\"252\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-31-at-11.42.12-AM-1024x545.png 1024w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-31-at-11.42.12-AM-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-31-at-11.42.12-AM-768x409.png 768w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-31-at-11.42.12-AM.png 1252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Ann Ward Greenville High School Yearbook Picture, 1944<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As events later proved, Bob was unsuccessful, as Shirley Ward later married David Eugene Walker Taylor in 1945. 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