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

Funeral services will be Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church with Rev. Harold Graffe officiating. Burial will be in Restland Cemetery, Mendota. Visitation will be Tuesday from 5-7 p.m. at the Merritt Funeral Home, Mendota.

Shirley was born November 2, 1926 in Raymond, Minnesota, the 11 ^th child of Ben and Augusta (Rossman) Lobbins.

She graduated from Glenwood High School in 1944, and lived in Minnesota until 1948, starting her teaching career there 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 NIU 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 married Charles Roloff on December 26, 1954 at St. John's Lutheran Church in Mendota. Together they have 4 children: Vicki, Chad, Kim, and Julie, as well as 6 grandchildren: Jesse, Aaron, Jenny, Danielle, Nick, and Trevor, and 4 great-grandchildren: Josephine, Barrett, Charlotte, and Saylor.

She is preceded in death by her husband Charles who passed away on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019, her parents, 4 brothers, and 7 sisters, and her only sister-in-law and her husband, Margaret and Francis Bybee.

Shirley and Charlie enjoyed many happy years together, including extensive traveling in Europe and around the U.S. shortly after retirement in the 1990's. They moved into Stonecroft Retirement Center in Mendota in October, 2014, and enjoyed time there amongst friends they have 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).