The City of Port Huron mourns the loss of one of its most influential and caring members of the community.
Ila Estelle Hazely Shoulders was born January 10, 1920 in the state of Alabama. She moved to Port Huron at the age of six, and had been a huge part of the community ever since.
Shoulders volunteered for many organizations, and received many awards for her service. In 2020 she received the Blue Water Woman Civic Leadership Award. She organized and supervised the first daycare center in St. Clair County for the Economic Opportunity Committee (EOC), as well as helping to establish the People’s Clinic in Port Huron.
Her list of contributions are too numerous to detail, but she was a wonderful woman and will be greatly missed by her family and friends, as well the community she cared so deeply for. Ms. Shoulders passed away Sunday, February 26.
Photo: Patti Samar
Reporting for WGRT – Choze Powell
