1/17/2021 6:41:56 AM
Shirley A. McCalley, 86, died peacefully on January 15, 2021 at Delmar Gardens of O’Fallon from complications of COVID-19. She spent her last afternoon with her beloved daughter and grandson; if you’d asked her, she’d have told you he was the light of her life.
Shirley was born on December 6, 1934 to Milton Tarrant and Mary Keasler Tarrant in East Alton, Illinois. She married her high school sweetheart and the love of her life, Daniel McCalley, on May 15, 1953, and they went on to create a family with the addition of their daughter Mitzi McCalley Jacobsen. But her true joy in life came when she became grandma to her only grandchild, Matthew Jacobsen.