Note well the faces of these young men , selected with care , for the 'honor guard' role of bearing 'Gram-ma's earthly remains to the place where she would return to the earth. They proudly represent the fruit & seed of the Emma & George SHAW FAMILY.

Requiem, Addendum: Emma Shaw…..Legacy

Posted by: WSS News in Local October 15, 2019 886 Views

By John Coleman, Community Photographer

Depending on who you were and on how you knew Emma (Armstrong) then Mrs. George Bernard Shaw, and possibly more importantly, how she knew you, you may have known and called Mrs. Emma Shaw by many different names and titles.

Her titles were simple: daughter, sister, aunt, wife, mother; Mrs Shaw, etc. None of us grew up with her during her early years, but we can see the evidence of her strength, honor, charity, faith, and LOVE that was baked into and built into the 300 or more Shaw children, grandchildren, grandchildren, and Great-Great-grandchildren. and beyond.

Mrs. Emma Shaw was born in Louisiana in 1912. She and her family moved to San Bernardino, California in 1944 where she found jobs, including work at Norton Air Force Base and the National Orange Show.

The Shaw family, now estimated to include more than 500 members, reside throughout the U.S., but primarily around the Inland area.

Mrs. Shaw passed on September 18, 2019, at the age of 107 years old. The Funeral Services were held on October 4, 2019, at Ecclesia Church in San Bernardino and were followed by a burial at Mt View Cemetery in San Bernardino.