Elizabeth Anne Bacon
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Elizabeth Anne ("Shan") Bacon was born November 25, 1935 ("one month before Jesus' birthday") and died July 27, 2022 in Nashville Tennessee. Shan was the second child of Ralph Granville and Gladys Wild Wesley. As the daughter of a Methodist minister, Shan enjoyed her childhood and often spoke fondly of life in Somerset, Louisville, Cumberland, Paint Lick, and Pineville, Kentucky.
"When peace like a river, attendeth my way,"
Shan graduated from Corbin High School and Union College where she met and married Barry Winston Bacon of Barbourville. Together, they raised four sons: James Richard Bacon (Geneen Parker) of Nashville, Tennessee; Winston Wesley Bacon (Greta Reams) of Franklin, Tennessee; Barry Wesley Bacon (Sherry Lewis) of Lexington, Kentucky; and Kevin Clifton Bacon of Maryville, Tennessee.
"When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Shan was preceded in death by an infant daughter; her parents, Reverend Ralph G. And Gladys W. Wesley; her brother, James Rue Wesley; her sister, Margaret Wesley Jasper; her father- and mother-in-law James Richard ("Dick") and Billy Abigail ("BB") Bacon; her brother-in-law, Richard Randolph ("Randy") Bacon; as well as cherished aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends she adored and who adored her.
"Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,"
Visitation will be conducted on Saturday, August 6, 2022, at 1:00 until time of the Celebration of Life Service at 2:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time) in the Margaret Wesley Jasper Chapel in the United Methodist Church in Somerset, KY. Burial will follow in the Somerset Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Shan's grandchildren: Winton Parker Bacon, Elizabeth Anne Bacon Allison, Wesley Blair Bacon, Wesley Elizabeth Bacon, Winston Jacob Bacon, Zachary Michael Bacon, Caroline Elizabeth Williams and great grandson, Asher Wesley Allison.
"It is well, it is well, with my soul."
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the First United Methodist Church (stain glass window fund) 99 S Central Avenue, Somerset, KY 42501
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Somerset Undertaking Company is entrusted with the arrangements of Elizabeth Anne ("Shan") Bacon.