Areline Bolerjack
(April 27, 1926 - September 9, 2012)

Areline Shroff Bolerjack was born on April 27, 1926, in Alva, Oklahoma, to Scottie and Anna (Knabe) Shroff and died Sunday, September 9, 2012 at the age of 86.

She attended schools in Alva, graduating from Alva High School in 1944. She then moved to Oklahoma City where she entered Nursing School at the Wesley School of Nursing under the Cadet Nurse program. She received her diploma in Nursing in 1947. She met her husband-to-be two months before her graduation and they were married three months later.

Areline married John Thomas Bolerjack on August 13, 1947. They were married for 57 years when John died in 2005. John stayed in the military until he retired in 1962. During this time, they lived in several different states. Areline worked in the hospitals in many of the cities where they lived. They moved to Oklahoma City in June 1962 when John retired from the army, and Areline worked at Presbyterian Hospital, the hospital where she had her nurse's training. They lived in Oklahoma City until John retired from FAA. In 1977, they moved to Grand Lake where they lived for seven years. She and John traveled coast-to-coast and border-to-border for 3 ½ years in a RV. They settled in Enid and lived there for eleven years. They moved to Blackwell in 1998 because of John's health.

Areline was a member of Immanuel Baptist Church and a knowledgeable Bible student and taught Sunday School classes some of the places where they lived and several places taught Bible study classes in her home. Areline wrote a weekly column, a Bible lesson, for the Blackwell Journal Tribune called Something Special for about 14 years. She was an avid reader and loved to cook. She was well known for her cinnamon rolls. She published two cookbooks entitled Something Special Cookbook. In September 2011 she published a novel "Anna's Song".

She is survived by two sons, John Jr. of Midwest City, and James and his wife, Bonnie, of Blackwell; two granddaughters, Lydia Cook and her husband Tim, of Granite City, Illinois, and Elisabeth Shelton, of Midwest City and four great grandchildren, Chloe and Alyssa Shelton and Caedmon and Iain Cook.

She was preceded in death by her husband, John, both parents, one brother, Scottie Shroff, and four sisters, Ella Robinet Shroff, Bucilla Blair, Ila May Dooley, and Anna Marie Gore.

Funeral services will be at Immanuel Baptist Church in Blackwell at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, September 12th. Interment will be at New Zion Cemetery in Chandler, Oklahoma, at 2:30 p.m.

Serving as honorary casketbearers will be her nephews and the deacons of Immanuel Baptist Church.

To quote the Apostle Paul and Psalmist David, "Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in me will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ" Philippians 1:6. "And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever" (Psalm 23:6b).

In lieu of flowers memorials may be sent to Immanuel Baptist Church Building Fund, 1800 S.13th, Blackwell, Oklahoma, 74631.