Sharon Shenfield

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Sharon Shenfield, age 65, of La Grande, died Tuesday morning at the Grande Ronde Hospital after an extended illness.

Viewing will be from 4-7pm Thursday at Loveland founder Chapel and for an hour before the funeral at the LDS Church on S. McAlister Road in Island City. The funeral will begin at 11:00 am Friday at the church. Burial will follow at Grandview Cemetery.

Mrs. Shenfield was born October 20, 1937 to Elvin L. and Virginia E. Davenport Carman in La Grande. She lived in Boise, Wendell and Pocatello, Idaho, before she graduated from La Grande High School in 1955. She married Richard "Dick" Shenfield, Jr. on June 5, 1955 in La Grande. She worked as a secretary for a local trucking company through several ownership changes including Sites Silverwheel Freight, Consolidated Freight Lines and finally Viking Trucking. She retired in 1997. She was a member of the Fourth Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where she worked with the primary group, the relief society and the young women's group. She was also a member of the Rusty Wheels Car Club and the Teamsters Union. She enjoyed ceramics, crochet, crafts and spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren.

Survivors include her husband of La Grande, children and their spouses, Richard "Rick" and Karalee Shenfield of Post Falls, Idaho and Randy and Jana Shenfield of La Grande; five grandchildren; four great grandchildren; four brothers, Paul Carman of Union, Ron Carman of Montana, Gary Carman of Bend and Don Carman of Hermiston; five sisters, Beverly Berkland of McMinnville, Shirley Kleng of La Grande, Connie Heller of Gooding, Idaho, Joyce Smith of Provo, Utah and Kathy Gilgert of Rosamond, California. Two brothers died earlier.