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Dr.Shirley P.Thrasher,57,of Detroit,Mich.,and formerly of Arnold City,Belle Vernon died Monday,Oct.17,1994 after a very short illness.  Born in Arnold City on April 4,1937,she was a daughter of the late Weldon and Cora Dupree Thrasher. She was an attorney in New York and a professor of sociology at Wayne State University in Detroit,Mich.  A graduate of Bellmar High School with the clas of 1955, she went on to receive a B.S.degree in sociology from Blackburn College in 1955,a master degree from Yesinva University in New York in 1979 and a doctorate from Hunter College in sociology in 1988. Survivors include a son,David Annexstein of Berkley,Calif.,a daughter,Leslie Annestein of Arlington,Va.,four sisters,Sylvia Joyner of Las Vegas,Nev.,Sonia Parker and Millicent Sellers,both of Arnold City,and Kathy Wilson of Rochester,N.Y.,and a grandmother,Aggie Dupree of Belle Vernon.  In addition to her parents,she was preceded in death by three brothers,Stephen in 1976 and Richard and Melvin Thrasher in 1990.  Friends will be received Friday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.in the Howard W,McCrory Funeral Home,Main Street,Fayette Citry,and Saturday from 11 a.m.to 1 p.m.in the First Christian Church of Wick Haven.

 

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