Shirley is the name she was known by she didn't care too much for her first name Elizabeth.She grew up as the youngest in Aston west midlands with her brother and sister Charley and Margret and Amy her mom and Charley snr her dad.She did a lot for her family when she was young with her mom having heart trouble and sadly dying at a tender age of 50 .She became mother to everyone.She also worked in factory's from the age of 15 and that's where she met her future husband Brian Lay. Then she went on to work for H.P sources for a number of years to finally settling down after getting married to start her family with the first one being a boy and she named him Mark Anthony lay followed by her only daughter Jacqueline Ann Lay she wanted a big family so she didn't stop there. Over the years Shirley and Brian continued to have 3 more children Steven Andrew Lay ,Martin Brian Lay,Leon Andrew Lay notice theirs 2 Andrews she liked the name and loved her children.Throughout her life she also had various operations but with her fatal one at the age of 68 she was told she had cancer of the lung after having the operation they discovered it was not cancer this was the one operation she wasn't going to get over 12 months later she contracted pneumonia in the operated lung sadly shortening her life at the age of 69