Jerry Shaw
Jerry Shaw
December 29, 1965 ~ December 2, 2006
Thomas Gerald “Jerry” Shaw, 40, Bowling Green, died Saturday, December 2, 2006, from a 22 month battle with ALS at his residence. A native of Medford, Oregon, he lived most of his life in southern Florida. He attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he played as a running back on the 1984 SEC Championship Gator football team. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the Business College of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and then worked in marketing for Jack Nicholas at Golden Bear. He married Park City native, Pamela Waldrop, daughter of Bill and Suzanne Waldrop. After their marriage, he worked as a business partner to Pam in their Mary Kay business, where he did, among other things, web design and maintenance, newsletter publication, event production and finance. They moved to Bowling Green in 1994 after the birth of their son. He was a member of the Living Hope Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Pamela Waldrop Shaw; one son, Thomas Gregory Shaw; his father and step-mother, Tom and Nancy Shaw; his mother, Joy Olson; grandmother, Velda Dickey; four brothers, Chris Shaw, Will Olson, Randy Shaw and Casey Shaw.
Life Celebration services will be held 1:00 p.m. Monday, December 11, 2006, at the Living Hope Baptist Church in Bowling Green with burial in the Fairview Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. Sunday and after 10:00 a.m. Monday at the church.
Alternate expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to Hospice of Southern Kentucky , Living Hope Baptist Church or Jerman Foundation.
