Shirley A

Akridge

Obituary

Shirley Ann Akridge

May 16th, 1968 ~ September 12th, 2017

S hirley died on Tuesday September 12th, 2017 just before 9am, after a tedious illness at the Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, New Jersey.

Shirley Ann was born in Shelby, North Carolina on May 16th, 1937 to the union of Edward and Novella Peake. Her father was ardent farmer and mother was a homemaker. She started her early education in Shelby, and it was during this time, privately reading the bible, she accepted Christ as her Savior. Then, as a young teen, the family moved to Washington around 1950.

Shirley spent much of early years in Washington, DC. There, she received the rest of her formal education in the Washington, DC Public School System, where she excelled in her studies. She proudly graduated from Cardozo High School. Then, she moved to Englewood, New Jersey, where she met and married Colin Akridge. She spent the remainder of her life there. She worked as a sales rep for Penguin Books USA, before becoming unable to due to sickness. Sister Akridge was an active member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and served with various church ministries in her local congregation before unable to continue. We still thank her for sharing the 4th Commandment, to remember the Sabbath day. Her mother and several of her siblings accepted the seventh day Sabbath.

Her interests included family, sewing and reading. Shirley devoted much of her time and energy as a caregiver to family members, including her daughter and mother.

Shirley leaves to cherish her memory, daughter Lisa Akridge, grandchildren Natasha Barber, Yolanda Duncan, Bria Alexander and Kenia Akridge, sisters Lillie Davis, of Charlotte, NC, Magnolia Neely, of Simpsonville, SC, Mattie Mae of Washington, DC and Betty Watson of Charlotte, NC, brothers James Peake, of Jacksonville, FL, and Leroy Peake of Jersey City, NJ, and many nieces, nephews, cousins, other loving relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her loving parents Edward and Novella Peake, daughter, Cassandra Akridge, brothers William Peake, Edward Peake Jr., and sister Doris Wright.

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