Shirley Lewis Oakes

Female 1929 - 1986  (57 years)


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  1. 1.  Shirley Lewis Oakes was born on 10 Apr 1929 in Toronto, York County, Ontario, Canada; died on 9 Aug 1986 in Palm Beach County, Florida.

    Other Events:

    • FamilySearch ID: LYMY-TY4
    • Probate: 12 Aug 1988, London, Middlesex, England

    Notes:

    From Sandra, Sept 2025:

    Shirley was one of the bridal attendants for the wedding between John F. Kennedy marriage to Jackie..

    Contemporary reports of Jackie's wedding party list "Shirley Oakes" among Jacqueline Bouvier's bridal attendants / bridesmaids. I found multiple period/newspaper-derived references that include Shirley Oakes in the wedding party.
    Virginia Chronicle

    Multiple family/genealogy pages connect Shirley (Oakes) Butler to the Oakes family of Nassau and report she was in a serious car accident in 1981 and is recorded as dying in the mid-1980s (some pages list 1986)

    FamilySearch ID:
    https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LYMY-TY4

    Probate:
    BUTLER, Shirley Lewis Oakes of Jacaranda, Parliament St., City of Nassau, New Providence, Bahamasm dir 9 August 1986, Probate Nassau £8657 in England and Wales. SEALED London 12 August [1988] 8851109578M.

    Died:
    Ancestry.com. Florida, U.S., Death Index, 1877-1998
    Name      Shirley Oakes Butler
    Race      White
    Age at Death      57
    Birth Date      10 Apr 1929
    Death Date      9 Aug 1986
    Death Place      Palm Beach, Florida, United States

    Shirley married Allan Churchill Butler on 9 Apr 1961 in Nassau, ____, New Providence, Bahamas, and was divorced before 1982. Allan (son of Dr. Allan Macy Butler and Mabel Harlakenden Churchill) was born on 26 Apr 1926 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 6 Aug 2007 in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine; was buried after 6 Aug 2007 in Churchill Cemetery, Plainfield, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]