Jeanne Marie Rogan Shaw, BHS 1945

Jeanne Marie Rogan Shaw passed away peacefully in Roseville California on June 1st, 2018 at the age of 90 surrounded by her loving family. She was a 4th generation Californian born in Burbank California in 1927 and was a graduate of Burbank High School.

Her father, James Rogan, was Thomas Edison's West Coast manager of the Edison Storage Battery Corporation. He co-founded the American Electric Vehicle Association in 1916. Her mother, Marie La Mer Rogan, was born into the original French community of Los Angeles. She was a decorated Red Cross worker during World War II. Her grandfather, Amable La Mer, was a pioneer Angeleno who founded the first winery in Los Angeles and leased to Mary Sees her first chocolate factory there. La Mer and Jeanne's grandmother, Clementine Clement La Mer were early settlers in Burbank after whom LaMer Street is named. Her great Uncle, Victor Clement, was a world famous mining engineer whose death in 1903 made headlines around the world. 

She attended UCLA where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1949 and she was a member of the Kappa Delta sorority. She met her beloved husband of nearly 60 years, Walter Raymond Shaw, Jr at UCLA. She and Walter were married at St. Robert Bellarmine church in Burbank and moved to Bakersfield where Walter was employed by Standard Oil of California, the predecessor to the Chevron Corporation. She had four children in five years in Bakersfield. 

Walter's advancement through Chevron took the family all over California and Hawaii. The family enjoyed a vacation home at Lake Tahoe. She lost her sight to macular degeneration and was a survivor of breast cancer, but she never let any hardship define her. 

She is preceded in death by her oldest son Jeffrey (1976) and husband Walter (2004) who died of ALS. She is survived by her three children, James Shaw of New York City, Steven Shaw and Laura Eagle of Roseville California. She is also survived by seven adoring grandchildren, Jennifer Manry, Winfield Shaw, Dana Eagle, Erin Shaw, Keenan Shaw, Madeleine Shaw, and Lilli Shaw, and two great grandchildren, Harper & Hudson Manry.

Services will be private. Donations in Jeanne's memory can be made to The Society for the Blind or the American Cancer Society.

Published in The Burbank Leader on June 16, 2018