Anna Jean Poole Shaw, 85, owner of Shaw's Flowers, Inc., passed away at her home under the care of St. Anthony's Hospice surrounded by her family on November 21, 2017.

She was born on April 29, 1932, to Houston Asher Poole and Carma Jane Melton Poole in Poole, Kentucky.  She graduated from Barrett Manual Training High School in 1949.  She met the love of her life, Walter Reimann Shaw, and they married on September 10, 1949.  Together they ran Shaw's Gardens and Shaw's Flowers until his death in 1980.  Jean ran the flower shop with the help of her daughter and son-in-law, Cynthia Shaw and Larry Dixon, until her death.

She was also a member of the Business and Professional Women's Club and the Henderson Lioness Club, where she was named Lioness of the Year.  She attended many flower conferences with Walter, and they enjoyed traveling to meeting across the United States.  She was named a Kentucky Florist Associate Director of District I from 1987 to 1988.  Jean was also instrumental in bringing St. Anthony's Hospice to Henderson.  She was a Kentucky Colonel.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Walter Reimann Shaw; her second husband, Harold Hart Gherman; her parents, Houston Poole and Carma Poole Royster; her sisters, Irene Poole Jones and Eloise Poole Hobbs; her father-in-law, Walter A. Shaw; sister and brother-in-law, Blanche and John Weldon.

Jean is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law who loved her dearly, Cynthia Shaw Dixon and her husband, Larry, and Debra Shaw Crooks and her husband, Tracy; one stepdaughter, Dee Ann Buley; five grandchildren, Tracy Crooks, II (Stacey), Walter Jason Dixon, Joshua Dixon, Heather Crooks Toews (Kenny), and Dria Crooks Snodgrass (Matt); nine great-grandchildren; Logan Keith Dixon, Livia Shaw Dixon, Koen Toews, Karmann Toews, Tracy Crooks Toews, James Reimann Toews, Xander Snodgrass, Shelby Jean Snodgrass, and Charlie Snodgrass; nieces, Avrice Watson, Patty White, Brenda Ladem (Bobby); nephews, Jimmy Johnston, Perry Johnston, and Clinton Hobbs; and other grandnieces and grandnephews. She is also survived by her cousin, Anna Lee Calvert, a lifelong friend, and Joette Hay who was like a daughter to Jean.

Services will be at noon Saturday, November 25, 2017, at Rudy-Rowland Funeral Home.  The Reverend David White and Father J. Edward Bradley will officiate.  Burial will be in Fairmont Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, November 24, 2017, and until service time Saturday, November 25, 2017, at the funeral home.

Pallbearers will be Jason Dixon, Tracy Crooks, II, Josh Dixon, Matt Snodgrass, Neal Cantley, Ross Cottingham, and Kenny Toews.

The family would like to thank Jean's caregivers, Penny LaPradd, Donnetta Gasaway, Lisa Spainhoward, Lindsay Thompson, Mary, and the rest of St. Anthony's Hospice.