Alva Review-Courier -

Memorial services for Priscilla E. Gyongyoshalmaji-Szohner Demaree Shelby will be 2 p.m. Thursday, December 1, 2022, at the Marshall Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will be in the Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva.

Priscilla Anna Maria Elisabeth Gyongyoshalmaji-Szohner Demaree Shelby was born in Budapest, Hungary, on August 18, 1937, and passed from this life at Alva on November 24, 2022, at the age of 85.

After surviving the horrors of war, Priscilla made her way to the United States by ship around the age of 13. Her name is on the Ellis Island wall u...