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==Background==

==Background==

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=Wyatt Shely: Anderson County, Kentucky|location=Paducah, Kentucky|publisher=Turner Publishing Co.|year=1991|page=146|ISBN= 1-56311-007-5|accessdate=October 16, 2019}}</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=Wyatt Shely: Anderson County, Kentucky|location=Paducah, Kentucky|publisher=Turner Publishing Co.|year=1991|page=146|ISBN= 1-56311-007-5|accessdate=October 16, 2019}}</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​