Shirliann "Shirley" Lewis Pigliacampi

Shirley Simmons Lewis Pigliacampi of 108 Tower St, Landenberg, PA died February 5, 2025 of terminal orneriness.

Shirley, also known as Shirliann, was born in Wilmington, DE on July 6, 1937 to Mary Camac and Jay W. Simmons.

She started school in Hanford, WA where her father had been assigned by the DuPont Co. As part of the start-up team for the Manhattan project, making of the atomic bomb.

She graduated for P.S. duPont High School in 1955, attended the University of Delaware and married Andrew Fielding Lewis, of Delaware, in 1957.

They had two children; son, Andrew Wesley, and daughter Linda Welsh; living in Hockessin, DE before Andy died in 1977.

Shirley raised her family alone while volunteering for 14 years for the Hockessin Community News.  She married a previous neighbor, Jack Pigliacampi, of Hockessin, in 1992.  Jack had two children, a daughter Ann and son Paul, and the families melded well because they had grown up as neighbors.

Jack retired from the DuPont Co. when he married Shirley.  The couple spent their years together traveling and enjoying friends and family.

Shirley enjoyed cooking and was a member of a Gourmet Limited for over 50 years.  In spite of the fact, once she married, Jack became the family chef.

She is survived by her son Andy, his wife Carrie and their sons, Danny and Wes; her daughter Linda, her husband Jack Soper and their two daughters, Samantha and Sarah; stepdaughter Ann, her husband Stacey Jansen and their daughters, Carlie and Brianne; stepson Paul Pigliacampi and his daughters, Ciara (her husband Ryan Ross and their children, Kayden and Raylee), Shaina (her husband Sonny Kim), and Alie and their mother Kat; and her brother, Jay W. Simmons and his children, Martha, Zachary, and Isaiah Winterbottom.

Friends and family will be invited to a Celebration of Life in late spring/early summer to be announced by the family.

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