Obituary for
Amyrose Shuey
Amyrose Headrick-Shuey was born in Portland, OR on November 13, 1926. The first child of John Robert and Dorothy E. Headrick lived in Oswego, OR (now Lake Oswego) on two lots with woods and grazing cows. Four years later the family grew to four with the birth of her brother Bill.
Amyrose loved swimming and learned to swim in the Willamette River at the age of 4. As swimming was her passion she earned her Instructorship in Water Safety at the age of 18.
The family moved to a small farm located in Mt. Pleasant while she was in the 7th grade. She learned to milk cows there. In the summers, she picked strawberries and raspberries until her junior year in high school when she started working for Hogg Brothers Furniture Store as a clean up girl. She worked there three summers and holidays.
After graduating from Oregon City High School in 1944 she started college at Oregon State College that fall. At this time her family moved to a farm in Beavercreek, OR. Amyrose graduated from Oregon State College in June of 1948. During her college years she became involved with the Camp Fire Girls in Mollala, OR and later worked at Camp Onahlee as the Waterfront Director. After graduating she started working in Des Moines, Iowa for the Camp Fire headquarters. Her first exciting experience riding alone on the train resulted from this job.
On vacation, Amyrose met Chauncey Lee Shuey, Jr., the man of her dreams. After correspondence and many phone calls, they were married on October 28, 1951. This marriage resulted in four wonderful boys, Mark, Scott, Terry and Malcolm. Living in Beavercreek, they built a new home on their property.
Amyrose taught grade school for 29 years at Carus Elementary School. The family experienced many car trips to different states.
When Chauncey and Amyrose’s sons left the “nest”, they bought property and built a new home on the Klamath Marsh. Very remote with not Stop Lights! Amyrose tried to help during the building of their home by hammering in the nails but bent each one. Chauncey had to straight each one so he had her set them in the wood and that worked fine.
Amyrose had a happy married life. Chauncey and she live at the Marsh house for 18 ½ years before Chauncey’s death, May 31, 2010. Amyrose continued to live at the Marsh house enjoying the wild life – especially the birds.
She is survived by her immediate family – Sons: Mark and his wife Connie (Eagle Point, OR): Scott (Portland, OR); Terry (Bremerton, WA) and Malcolm and wife Gale (Beavercreek, OR) and her grandchildren: Nicole and Nathan (Eagle Point, OR); Joshua, Daniel, Hannah and Matthew (Beavercreek, OR). She is preceded in death by her husband of 59-1/2 years, Chauncey and brother Bill Headrick. Survived by very close Sister-in-law Margaret and her children, Robert, Richard, Elizabeth(Ellie) and John.
