Forrest Jarvis Shelor, 79, of Henderson, Nev., peacefully passed away at Sunrise Memory Care with her daughter, Katy, by her bedside, holding her hand.

Forrest was born in Glasgow on Dec. 9, 1944, as the youngest child of Bill and Mary Jarvis. She was a 1963 graduate of NaturalBridge High School.

After remarrying in 1979, the real adventure began! Forrest became a full-time mother of a blended family of four rambunctious boys. A few years later, a daughter was born.

Forrest and Mack Shelor soon left Roanoke and moved around the country a good bit over the next several decades with stops in Midlothian (five times), Muscatine, Iowa, Lancaster, Penn., Jacksonville, Fla., Annapolis, Md., Reno, Nev., Claremont and finally Henderson, Nev.

Forrest stayed in touch with many of her childhood friends and those made along the way through all of those years. She and her older sister planned and executed a milestone reunion at NBHS in 2014 and it was a smashing success!

Forrest spent many years as a soccer mom and was very involved in her daughters’ high school theater arts productions at Severn School, attending all rehearsals and making costumes for the plays. She called these “some of the best years of her life.” She also loved playing tennis and sharing the latest gossip with the ladies in Brandermill.

No matter where she was living, Rockbridge County and all of her experiences growing up there were never far from her heart and mind. She was a Glasgow girl to the very end.

Forrest was preceded in death by her parents, Bill and Mary Jarvis of Glasgow, and her second husband of 42 years, Mack Shelor.

She is survived by two siblings, Richard Jarvis of Ashland and Mary Carole McAlpin of The Villages, Fla.; sons Wayne Shelor of Powhatan, Charlie Shelor of Smithfield, Carter Sensabaugh of Midlothian, Ben Sensabaugh of Henderson, Nev.; daughter Katy Shelor; and grandchildren Milli Savard of Henderson, Nev., Gregory and Zachary Shelor of Powhatan, and Mary, Emily and Claudia Shelor of Smithfield.

A celebration of life gathering for Forrest and Mack will be held in August in Midlothian.