Sheila Farrell Curran

Sheila Farrell Curran, age 99, of Milwaukee, WI, died peacefully at home on August 30, 2024 after a very long and blessed life and just 31 days shy of her 100th birthday.

Sheila was born on September 30, 1924, to Patrick and Sarah Farrell in Wednesbury, UK, and her family moved to Newport, Wales, UK, when she was 5 years old, where she lived until marriage.

Sheila met her husband, Charles (Charlie) Curran, in 1942 at the age of 17 during a Catholic Church social at St. Mary’s Catholic Church on Stow Hill in Newport Wales, UK and they married on January 1st 1949, after Charlie, an officer in the British Army Royal Engineers, returned home to Newport Wales, UK, from India after WWII was over.

Sheila and Charlie have five children. Sheila was a wonderful mother deeply loved by her children, Maureen, Patricia, Helen, Cathy, and John, all born between 1949 and 1963.

Sheila and Charlie immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, in 1963 (son John was born there), where Charlie was hired as a chief electrical engineer for the Allen Bradley Company (now Rockwell Automation), and subsequently, in 1969, he was asked by A-B CEO to start a new manufacturing subsidiary of Allen Bradley in the UK. Charlie successfully launched the A-B manufacturing subsidiary and became the managing director of the new A-B European operation for twelve years. Sheila, Charlie, and their children lived in Bedford, UK, until 1981, when they then again returned to Milwaukee.

Sheila was a highly intelligent lady with a wonderful comedic British sense of humor who accumulated long-lasting friendships with people from all over the world who loved her kind heart, empathy, warmness, charm, and elegance. Family and friends will miss Sheila tremendously, but they feel extremely grateful and blessed to have had Sheila in their lives.

Sheila returns to God in heaven to reunite with her husband Charlie, daughters Maureen and Cathy, her grandson Matthew Turpin, Sheila’s parents, Patrick and Sarah, brother Patrick, nephew Vincent, and all her aunties, uncles, cousins, and friends that had gone before her.

Sheila is survived by her children Patricia, Helen, and John; grandchildren Sarah O’Brien-Natario, Daniel O’Brien, Kate O’Brien-Rose, Roya Darling-Chomer, Lisa Darling, Daniel Turpin and her great-grandchildren Ender Natario, Theodore Chomer, Desmond and Bernadette Rose, Artemis and Camilla O’Brien.

Sheila’s family will have a private Catholic Funeral Mass, followed by the committal prayers at the church and the final prayers being said at the Chapel of Hope Mausoleum, with the entombment to follow in crypt #4, Tier A Corridor-Grace, located on the grounds of St. Adalbert Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.