MENDOTA - Shirley Mae Antoinette Lobbins Roloff, 91, of Mendota died June 21, 2019 at the Mendota Lutheran Home.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, June 26 at St. John’s Lutheran Church with Rev. Harold Graffe officiating. Burial will be at Restland Cemetery, Mendota. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 25 at the Merritt Funeral Home, Mendota.

Shirley was born Nov. 2, 1926 in Raymond, Minn., the 11th child of Ben and Augusta (Rossman) Lobbins. She married Charles Roloff on Dec. 26, 1954 at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Mendota. He preceded her in death on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019.

Survivors include four children, Vicki, Chad, Kim, and Julie; six grandchildren, Jesse, Aaron, Jenny, Danielle, Nick and Trevor; and four great-grandchildren, Josephine, Barrett, Charlotte and Saylor.

She was preceded in death by her husband; four brothers; seven sisters; and her only sister-in-law and her husband, Margaret and Francis Bybee.

Shirley graduated from Glenwood High School in 1944 and lived in Minnesota until 1948, where she started her teaching career in a country school house. She moved to Illinois in 1948 and furthered her education while raising a family, receiving a BS in Education from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb in 1964, and her MS in Outdoor Education from NIU in 1970. She continued teaching in Triumph and Mendota and retired in 1991 after 37 years of teaching. Shirley and Charlie enjoyed many happy years together, including extensive traveling in Europe and around the United States shortly after retirement in the 1990s. They moved to Stonecroft Retirement Center in Mendota in October 2014 and enjoyed time there amongst friends they had known throughout the years in the Mendota area.

Memorials may be directed to St. John’s Lutheran Church Youth Group, Mendota Lutheran Home or Mendota Area Senior Services (Feik Senior Center).