Shelly Bryan
February 4, 1970 ~ November 19, 2015
Shelly Bryan, 45, of Mechanicsville, died on Thursday, November 19, 2015, at St Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids. Funeral Services: 1 p.m. on Monday, November 23, 2015, at Stewart Baxter Funeral & Memorial Services, Mount Vernon, by Chaplain Christine Wagner-Hecht. Visitation from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the funeral home on Monday. Please dress casually, especially in band and concert t-shirts.
Survivors include her children, Zakk Bryan, Rhiannon Bryan, and Miranda Bryan, all of Mechanicsville; significant other, Andy McGhghy of Mechanicsville, sister, Brandi (Brandon) Sissel of Stanwood; brother, Chad (Toni) Sulzner of Mechanicsville; former husband, Rich Bryan of Mechanicsville; nieces and nephews; and her faithful companions: dogs, Thor and Navi and cats, Magik and Coots.
Shelly was born February 4, 1970, in Cedar Rapids, the daughter of Gary Mullan and Linda Ralston. Shelly graduated from Lincoln High School in 1988. She worked as a CNA at Hallmark Care Center for 17 years. Shelly loved music and going to concerts. She will be remembered for being a jokester, always having fun with her family and friends, and she especially enjoyed Halloween with her collection of masks.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Linda Sulzner; grandmother, Lillian Woods; and great grandparents, John and Mildred Vosdingh.
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Shelly you will be missed deeply and dearly by family and frieds.. Now you can spread your wings and fly. We carry you in our hearts always.. Deepest condolences to the family..
Shelly is going to be deeply missed. As she is one of a kind who was kind hearted and cared for so many people. I was so blessed to have been apart of shellys family. When chad and i first got together and he introduced me to his beautiful sisters. Shelly had told me she had just gotten back from australia where i was from…”i moved all the way from there” i told her. Then i asked her where did she go in austalia. She said “bacchus marsh a small little town”. can you believe that was the town i grew up in. We could not believe it. We talked all night about the things she gor to experience there in our small little town all the way across the world. And since then we have always been auzzie sistas 🙂 he love is so strong the world stopped spinning the night she passed as she has touched the lives of so many here and far. She is in her heaven now ridding them kangaroos 😉 love her so much xxooxx
Beautiful memory..
My prayers are with all those who knew Shelly. Shelly entered her eternal destiny at a young age. 45 years compared to the time she will be in eternity, forever and ever. It is a sad time for all of us.
May we take this time, ourselves, to reflect on where we will spend eternity after we pass from this earth. Our bodies die but our souls do not. We must realize that we will spend more time in eternity than we will on this earth so it’s important how we live our lives. We must know if we are truly saved or not because that will determine where we will spend eternity.
Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6
“He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.” Mark 16:16
Belief involves understanding, knowing, living, and being committed to a relationship with God because “even the demons ‘believe in God’ and tremble.” James 2:19
Luke 13:24 “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.”
“Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity. I do not know you. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Luke 13:27-28
“…unless you repent you will all likewise perish.” Luke 13:5
“unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” John 3:3
John 3 talks about the New Birth: having a new life in Christ by being born again.
More truths in regards to life after death can be found in the Bible. The Bible is life for our souls. I encourage us all to read it and see how we fit into God’s plan and what we can do today about our eternal future as we never know when that time will be.
May God speak to our hearts regarding our eternal destination.
My deepest sympathies go out to Shelly’s kids, sister, brother and family. So sad for your loss. She was such a nice person.
Miss you Aunt Shelly! <3 -Little Chad