| | '''Forest Franklin Shely''' (June 20, 1924 – August 30, 2010) was a [[physician]] from Campbellsville in Taylor County [[Kentucky]], who served for fifty-six years as a trustee of the [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated Campbellsville University. | | '''Forest Franklin Shely''' (June 20, 1924 – August 30, 2010) was a [[physician]] from Campbellsville in Taylor County [[Kentucky]], who served for fifty-six years as a trustee of the [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated Campbellsville University. |
| | Shely (pronounced SHE LEE) was the older of two sons born to Forest Wyatt Shely (1901–1976), a graduate of Berea College, a schoolteacher and a Baptist layman, and the former Blanche Brown in Lawrenceburg in Anderson County near the capital city of [[Frankfort]], Kentucky. Wyatt Shely, as he was known, wrote a column for ''The Anderson News'' as well as several church histories. The younger Shely son, Robert Edward Shely, Forest Shely's brother, was born in 1930 and died in 1955, leaving behind a young widow and a son, Brent Shely, later Brent Owen of Williamsburg , [[Virginia]].<ref name=obit/> Forest Shely graduated in 1941 from Western High School in Sinai, also in Anderson County, where his father was on the faculty.<ref name=andco>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nSTjzjDkpRUC&pg=PA146 |title=Anderson County, Kentucky|location=[[Paducah, Kentucky|Paducah]] Kentucky|publisher=Turner Publishing Co.|year=1991|page= 146 | ISBN= 1-56311-007-5|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref> | | Shely (pronounced SHE LEE) was the older of two sons born to Forest Wyatt Shely (1901–1976), a graduate of Berea College, a schoolteacher and a Baptist layman, and the former Blanche Brown in Lawrenceburg in Anderson County near the capital city of [[Frankfort]], Kentucky. Wyatt Shely, as he was known, wrote a column for ''The Anderson News'' as well as several church histories. The younger Shely son, Robert Edward Shely, Forest Shely's brother, was born in 1930 and died in 1955, leaving behind a young widow and a son, Brent Shely, later Brent Owen of Williamsburg , [[Virginia]].<ref name=obit/> Forest Shely graduated in 1941 from Western High School in Sinai, also in Anderson County, where his father was on the faculty.<ref name=andco>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nSTjzjDkpRUC&pg=PA146 |title=Anderson County, Kentucky|location=[[Paducah, Kentucky|Paducah]] Kentucky|publisher=Turner Publishing Co.|year=1991|page= 146 | ISBN= 1-56311-007-5|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref> |