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William Landless Shannon

7 Jul 1903 – 7 Apr 1963

Birth	7 Jul 1903
Death	7 Apr 1963
Cemetery	Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery Phoenix , Maricopa County , Arizona , USA
Added by	Elise Tavella on 07 Apr 2021
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187423890

Bio

My father was one of 14 children, 12 surviving, born to O.L. and Rennie Taylor Shannon in Durant, OK. He was named "Landles" because at the time he was born, Native Americans in Oklahoma Territory couldn't own land. He was registered 1/16 Choctaw on the Dawes Rolls through his mother. He attended schools in Oklahoma and later received a Divinity degree at Yale; he also attended Theology School at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and then was ordained an Episcopal priest. His first wife died and later he met my mother, Mildred Erlingheuser, in New Haven, Connecticut. She was 16 years his junior and they married privately in 1938, publicly in 1940. (My mother often changed her birth date to 1917 to seem older but she was actually born in 1919.) My brother, Lanny, was born in 1945 and I was born in 1950, both in Texas, where my father was priest (and builder) of St. Mark's, Richmond-Rosenberg. Due to my (Rheumatic Fever) and my brother's (Encephalits, Menengitis) ill health, doctors advised my parents to leave the Texas climate, so we relocated to Bishop, California and then to Phoenix, Kingman and Casa Grande in Arizona. My father suffered from Diabetes and related health issues and had to retire from his ministry a year before his death. Following his death we moved to Tempe, Az where my brother attended ASU and I attended Tempe HS. My mother remarried and we moved to California.

Inscription

Servant of the Lord Minister of the People Rev. W. Landless Shannon July 7, 1903 - April 7, 1963 Beloved Husband, Father & Brother

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Family

Parents

• Ober Lee "Bud" Shannon 1874–1955
• Mary Lourenda "Rennie" Taylor Shannon 1878–1960

Spouse

• Mary Edith Hickman Shannon 1903–1933 FaG
• Mildred Marie "Millie, Mickey" Erlingheuser Shannon Cooke 1919–2009 FaG

Siblings

• Anna Lively "Sis" Shannon Bates 1896–1970
• Orrick Lee Shannon 1898–1915
• Ruel Shannon 1902–1902
• Oberen Eli Shannon 1905–1974
• Stella Dee Shannon 1908–1987
• Dr Thompson Lewis Shannon 1910–1995
• Jack Shannon 1912–1989
• Kathleen Shannon 1914–2002
• Ober Allen Shannon 1917–1983
• David Patric Shannon 1920–1999
• Sam Stone Shannon 1922–2012
• Donald Taylor Shannon 1925–1984

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