| − | 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|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 Southern 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|publisher=Turner Publishing Co.|year=1991|page=146|ISBN= 1-56311-007-5|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref> |
| | Shely attended Campbellsville University, then known as Campbellsville Junior College, from 1941 to 1943, at which he was named the "Best All-Around Student."<ref name=doctors>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XWdRi04qV7EC&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq=Dr.+Forest+Shely&source=bl&ots=9-1oYl_zsx&sig=ovkLHjyAU9fIVoot_BpD42-Be-8&hl=en&ei=LC06Tf_6AcKclgfT_dSDBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=Dr.%20Forest%20Shely&f=false | | Shely attended Campbellsville University, then known as Campbellsville Junior College, from 1941 to 1943, at which he was named the "Best All-Around Student."<ref name=doctors>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XWdRi04qV7EC&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq=Dr.+Forest+Shely&source=bl&ots=9-1oYl_zsx&sig=ovkLHjyAU9fIVoot_BpD42-Be-8&hl=en&ei=LC06Tf_6AcKclgfT_dSDBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=Dr.%20Forest%20Shely&f=false |
| − | |author=William Lynwood Montell|title=Tales from Kentucky Doctors|location=[[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], Kentucky|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|ISBN=978-0-8131-2482-7|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref> He served in the [[United States Army]] during [[World War II]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.campbellsville.com/wp/2010/08/31/dr-forest-f-shely/|title=Dr. Forest F. Shely, Age 86|publisher=campbellsville.com|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref> He then continued his studies at Georgetown College, a small Baptist institution in Georgetown] Kentucky, Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name=doctors/> and [[Yale University]] in New Haven, [[Connecticut]], from which he graduated in 1946. From 1946 to 1947, Shely attended Tufts University School of Medicine in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. In 1949, he graduated from the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center in [[Louisville]], Kentucky.<ref name=assawards/> He interned from 1949 to 1950 at Good Samaritan Hospital in [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], Kentucky.<ref name=doctors/> | + | |author=William Lynwood Montell|title=Tales from Kentucky Doctors|location=[[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], Kentucky|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|ISBN=978-0-8131-2482-7|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref> He served in the [[United States Army]] during [[World War II]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.campbellsville.com/wp/2010/08/31/dr-forest-f-shely/|title=Dr. Forest F. Shely, Age 86|publisher=campbellsville.com|accessdate=October 16, 2019}}</ref> He then continued his studies at Georgetown College, a small Baptist institution in Georgetown] Kentucky, Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name=doctors/> and [[Yale University]] in New Haven, [[Connecticut]], from which he graduated in 1946. From 1946 to 1947, Shely attended Tufts University School of Medicine in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. In 1949, he graduated from the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center in [[Louisville]], Kentucky.<ref name=assawards/> He interned from 1949 to 1950 at Good Samaritan Hospital in [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], Kentucky.<ref name=doctors/> |