Shirley Jean Fowler, daughter of the late Julius Parker and Mary Cathleen Adams Parker was born on September 6, 1936 in Four Oaks, North Carolina and passed away at the Mulberry Manor in Dexter on June 11, 2017 at the age of 80.   

Mrs. Fowler was a member of New Bethel General Baptist Church, a home-maker and a resident of Dexter.

On January 25, 1955, she was united in marriage to Bobby G. Fowler in Smithfield, North Carolina.  Mr. Fowler survives of the home in Dexter.

She is survived by two daughters, Sandy Hutchcraft and husband Tim of Dexter and Jilda Everhart and husband William of Greensboro, North Carolina; by one sister, Jilda Brown of Titusville, Florida; by two grandchildren, Chris Hutchcraft and wife Stacey and Michael Gillie and by three great-grandchildren, Hayden Hutchcraft, Grady Hutchcraft and Kayla Hutchcraft.

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Thursday, June 15, 2017 from 11:00 A. M. until 1:00 P. M. 

A Memorial service will then be conducted on Thursday at 1:00 P. M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Dexter with Rev. Jamie Jones officiating. 

In lieu of flowers the family requests all memorials be made to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000 Department 142, Memphis, TN 38101-9908.