SIS HEDDIE MARIE SHELBY WAS BORN AUGUST 23, 1943, TO THE LATE MR. ELDRIDGE SHELBY SR. AND THE LATE MRS PEARL TOLLIVER WEBBER-SHELBY IN HOUSTON (HARRIS COUTNY) TEXAS. SHE WAS THE TWELTH CHILD.

HEDDIE AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS "MARIE" PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS, MR. ELDRIDGE SHELBY SR., MRS. PEARL SHELBY, SIX BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS.

AT AN EARLY AGE, HEDDIE ACCEPTED CHRIST AS HER LORD AND SAVIOR, AND JOINED FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH IN HOUSTON'S HISTORIC FREEDOM'S TOWN UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF THE LATE PASTOR REVEREND C.L. BELL. THERE SHE SERVED IN SUNDAY SCHOOL, B.T.U., AND THE YOUTH ADULT CHORUS. IN 2007, SHE JOINED MT. MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF REVEREND JEROME DAVIS. SHE SERVED IN THE DISCIPLE SHIP CLASS OF THE LATE SIS EMMA JACKSON AND THE BLOOMING BUTTERFLIES.

HEDDIE ATTENDED SCHOOL IN THE HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND GRADUATED FROM JACK YATES SR HIGH SCHOOL (CLASS OF 1962). SHE ATTENDED NURSING SCHOOL AT ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL.

HEDDIE LOVED HER FAMILY, ESPECIALLY HER GRANDCHILDREN. SHE LOVED TO COOK, HANG OUT AT FAMILY GATHERINGS, BUT MOST OF ALL, SHE LOVED THE LORD.

SHE IS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER HUSBAND L.D. TAYLOR. LEFT TO CHERISH HER LOVING MEMORIES ARE HER CHILDREN, CRAIG SHELBY (TRINA LOTTS), MARCUS SHELBY (APRIL SHELBY), CEDRICK SHELBY (WILLOW SHELBY), JACKIE BELL, AND LA'QUANTYA SHELBY-LINDEN (DONNIE LINDEN). ALSO HER GRANDCHILDREN, JARRETT FRAZIER, DE'JWAN FRAZIER, JAYLIN FRAZIER, SETH SHELBY, KAYLA SHELBY, JAYDA SHELBY, TIFFANI SHELBY, JOSHUA SHELBY, TARIK KEMP, LATIL SHELBY, AND NOVEMBER SHELBY. AS WELL AS HER FAVORITE NIECES, LASHAWNDA WEBBER AND GLORIA JOSEPH, WHO WAS MORE LIKE A SISTER TO HER.