Michelle "Shelly" Renee Magnus, 50, of Chicago, passed away at 11:06 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017, at her home after a five-year battle with breast cancer. Born March 31, 1967, in Goshen, she was the daughter of Philip Howard Cripe and Carolyn Sue Grimes Emmert.
Shelly spent her childhood in North Webster and graduated from Wawasee High School with the Class of 1985. She was a cheerleader her junior high years and three years of high school. She received her bachelor's degree from Indiana University in S.P.E.A. (School of Public & Environmental Affairs) with specialty in management in 1989. In 1990 she earned her first Master’s in Instructional Design at Indiana University and her second Masters was earned 1991 in Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
On Oct. 26, 1996, she married Daniel Keith Magnus at St. Mary of the Angels, Chicago. Shelly had been an HR trainer at Altschuler-Melvoin-Glasser Bank and Arthur Anderson and for 10 years at Northern Trust Bank, all in Chicago. She first taught seventh and eighth grade for one year and for the past 10 years she taught sixth-grade math at Belding School, Chicago.
Survivors include her husband of 21 years, Daniel Keith Magnus, Chicago; three daughters, Natalie, Elise and Audrey Magnus, Chicago; father, Philip Howard Cripe, Goshen; mother, Carolyn Sue (Bob) Emmert, Branson, Mo.; one brother, Scott (Jill) Cripe, Ft. Collins, Colo.; a grandmother, Gladys Cripe, Goshen; a mother-in-law, Doris Magnus, Chicago; aunt and uncles, Linda Simmons, Goshen; Michael Cripe, Nineveh; Amanda (Kent) DeKoninck, Greenwood; and Randy Grimes, Columbia City. She was preceded in death by her paternal grandfather, Howard Cripe; maternal grandparents, Franklin and Laura Virginia Grimes; and her father-in-law, Ray Magnus.
Visitation will be 11 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, at DeMoney-Grimes, a Life Story Funeral Home, 600 Countryside Drive, Columbia City, with her funeral service at 2 p.m. Funeral Celebrant Sharon Brockhaus will be officiating. There also will be a Celebration of Life Memorial Service at 6 p.m. Sunday, October 22 with a reception immediately following, both in the Erin Ballroom, Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N. Knox Ave., Chicago, Ill.
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Memorials in Shelly's honor can be made to the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Research.
Visit www.demoneygrimes.com to send Shelly’s family condolences online.
