Obituary of Shirley Miriam Zendle

Shirley Miriam Zendle passed away peacefully on March 14th at her home at 2172 Apple Tree Lane, Niskayuna, NY. She had been struggling with a long illness. Shirley was born in 1927 to Ida and Aaron Shapiro of Newark, New Jersey. Her family moved to Schenectady during the depression and opened the Grand Rapids Furniture Store. Shirley married Robert Zendle of Syracuse, New York and completed a teacher education curriculum at Albany State Teacher's College and Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. She taught in the Schenectady City School District regularly for 43 years while lovingly raising her children. She also substituted a lot. Shirley was predeceased by her loving parents and husband (mentioned above) and her three brothers and two sisters-in-law whom she was very fond of. Survivors include her sons, Hal David Zendle of Schenectady and Neal Howard Stipe-Zendle of Winston-Salem, North Carolina; her niece, Nancy R. Shapiro of Boca Raton, Florida; and her in-laws, now residing in California. She is also survived by her two grandchildren, Robert M. Zendle and Eric P. Zendle of Baltimore, Maryland. The Zendle Family would like to thank an extraordinary team of caregivers including Dr. David Hornick and Dr. Christine Murphy, Hospice of Saratoga and Schenectady, Home Instead Senior Care, and the family of Ann Ramlakhan, formerly of Guyana, South America. Rabbi Eleanor Pearlman has also been a great source of comfort. Services will be held at Congregation Gates of Heaven, 852 Ashmore Avenue in Schenectady on Friday, March 18, 2016 at 10 a.m. Interment will follow in the Gates of Heaven Cemetery in Schenectady. A period of mourning will be observed on Friday commencing at approximately 12 noon following the interment at the Zendle's Apple Tree Lane residence. Memorial contributions may be made to the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund at Congregation Gates of Heaven.