Shirley Maurine Carubie

Shirley "Mimi" Carubie died on 9-7-23 at Central Wyoming Hospice she was 99.

On a wintery night, December 30, 1923, Shirley Maurine Pursel entered this world. She was welcomed by her parents Harold "Whitey" M. Pursel and Viola Pearl (Wagner) Pursel, and older brother and protector Max.
Throughout her life, Shirley would show the world exactly what she was made of. By moving across the country to marry the love of her life, Louis "Lou" Carubie. Then to return to college to complete her nursing degree at age 47 as a mom of five.

Nothing in Shirley's life made her prouder than her children. She was blessed with four daughters and one son. To the mix she continued to watch her family grow through her 15 grandchildren, 34 great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. Mom and dad's house on Country Club had all the babies at Christmas time. Those babies represented her grandchildren(s).

Mimi was known to her family as the baby whisper. Her gentle nature calmed most babies. She spent most of her nursing careers sharing her kind soul and soothing nature with many families throughout Casper working on the baby floor in Post Partum. Mimi even made sure to be there when a great grandchild (being born in Casper) to give them all their very first baths. Mimi's love for nursing and others inspired her to work until retirement on her 90th birthday.

She was preceded in death by her parents, one sister and one brother. Her husband Lou and her children
Jodi (Russ) Garner, Cindy (Steve) Garner, Barb (Chip) Wanglein and her son Tom Carubie.

She is survived by her daughter Sandi Carubie of Casper. Her grandchildren(s) Several nieces and nephews.
To say the world will be dimmer without this shining soul would be unfair, as she was sure to share that light with everyone she came in contact with. She was Mimi to almost everyone she met. To say the least she made the world a much brighter place for generations to come.

Vigil/Rosary will be October 6th at 6:30 pm at St Patricks, with a mass of Christian burial to be held October 7, 2023 at St. Patrick's Catholic Church at 10 AM.

Don't be sad for her, as her youngest great grandson said after she passed "It is ok, Mimi was going to be able to see her old friends, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln." Out of the mouths of babes.

In lieu of flowers, donation to St. Jude's children hospital or Hospice of Casper.