Charles Hugh Shaw 1925-1984

On September 26, 1925, a son, Charles Hugh Shaw, was born to Frederick Clay Shaw and Myrtle Mae (Sills) Shaw in Vici, Oklahoma. He received his grade school and high school education in Vici. Charles Hugh was an outdoor type young person who loved football, horses, and hunting. He finished high school in 1942. He was large for his age and had been called a 4-F or draft dodger since he was a junior in high school. He insisted that his parents sign the papers that would allow him to go into the Coast Guards after he finished high school. He served his country for three years,

Not long after he was discharged, Charles decided to attend Fayetteville Business College, where he met Virginia Hight. They were married June 1, 1947, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. In August of that same year, Mr. and Mrs. Shaw entered college at New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico. Charles lettered in football all four years of college, worked ay a student job, was active in Rodeo Club, and made many close friends.

After he finished college he moved to Cincinnati, Arkansas to a farm, and he taught school and coached at Westville, Oklahoma. During the next five years he farmed, coached, and taught school at Siloam Springs, Arkansas and at Watts, Oklahoma.

In 1957 Mr. and Mrs. Shaw and their year old son, Charles Clay moved to Bloomfield, New Mexico where Charles worked in the oilfields, coached and taught six years. Soon after they moved back to New Mexico they had a daughter, Sheryl Ann.

In 1963 the family moved to Vici, Oklahoma where they coached and taught three years.

August 9, 1966 Mr. and Mrs. Shaw and family moved to Waynesville, Missouri where Coach Shaw was hired to coach football and track and teach boy’s P.E. at Fort Leonard Wood. Coach really enjoyed the young people he knew in this area. He also enjoyed fox hunting and raising cattle.

In 1961 Mr. Shaw made his public profession of faith and was baptized.

In 1966 Mr. Shaw’s father passed away. Mr. Shaw’s mother is still in Lincoln, Arkansas. He has one brother, Howard, who lives in El Paso, Texas. He leaves his wife, Virginia, of the home, his son. Charles Clay and family of Fort Scott, Kansas, his daughter, Sheryl Ann Hunter, of Joplin, Missouri, also three grandsons, one granddaughter, and many….

Mr. Shaw passed away October 7, 1984 at St. John’s Medical Center, in Springfield, Missouri following a short illness.

Probably everyone who knew Coach Shaw has heard him say, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” He lived that way.

Funeral services for “Coach” Charles Hugh Shaw, 59, of Rt. 2, Dixon, were held Tuesday evening, October 9, 1984 at 5:00 p.m. in the Waynesville Senior High School Gymnasium with Virgil White officiating and under the direction of the Waynesville…

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