Mary Nell (Evans) Shaheen

Mary Nell (Evans) Shaheen passed away peacefully in Cumming, Georgia on Thursday, February 16, 2023 surrounded by family. Mary Nell was born on June 3, 1934 in Walthall, Mississippi to Claude and Susie (Sugg) Evans. Mary Nell was the youngest of three children, Joe Scott and Beatrice, 17 and 18 years older. All preceded her in passing.

The gregarious Mary Nell loved basketball and played piano, leaving home after high school for the big city of Memphis, Tennessee. There she began working for the Southern Bell telephone company. She met and married Milton Eugene DeLozier. They had three children, one who passed shortly after birth. She was widowed in 1957. Mary Nell raised her young girls and worked at Le BonHeur Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

After relocating to Atlanta, Georgia Mary Nell met and married Marshall Shaheen, a recently widowed father of three; Marshall (Marty) Shaheen, Karen Shaheen and Randall (Randy) Shaheen, who Mary raised and loved as her own.

Mary Nell (Evans) Shaheen was preceeded in death by her parents (Claude and Susie Evans), her siblings (Joe Scott and Beatrice Evans), her husband (Marshall Shaheen), her first husband (Milton Eugene DeLozier), and her infant son (Milton, Jr).

She is survived by five children: Linda Ivell (David) of Bradenton, Florida, Sue Hanson (Russ Thomas), Marty (Marshall) Shaheen (Stephanie), Karen Shaheen, and Randy Shaheen (Jennifer) - all from the Atlanta area. Grandchildren include Donovan Lee Blaylock, II of Austin, Texas, Matthew Hanson of Atlanta, Georgia, Douglas Phillips of Washington, DC, and Brittany Shaheen,, Brooke Shaheen, RJ Shaheen and Abi Shaheen, all of Atlanta, Georgia. She is survived by two great grandchildren, Jordan Blaylock and Sean Blaylock of Yorktown, Virginia and her cousin, Nancy (Evans) Jackson, who was her best friend and like a sister.

Mary will be laid to rest at a future date In Bellefontaine, Mississippi at First Union Cemetery alongside her parents, siblings and infant son.