Shelly Trost

On Monday, December 14, Shelly Ann McClain Trost of Sheboygan, was called to eternal life. Beloved by her husband, Paul Gerhardt Trost, her kitties, Charlotte and Sherman, her family, friends, and everyone who had the privilege of meeting her, she will be missed beyond measure. Shellys kindness, pure heart, and radiant spirit brought a light and goodness into the world that was transformational.

Born in San Francisco on February 16, 1973, Shelly grew up in Encinitas, California and loved the beauty of the Pacific Ocean. Her spiritual life and faith in God were her foundation. As a member of the Self Realization Fellowship, she practiced yoga principles and meditation from a very young age.

Shelly loved to dance. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelors in Dance and became a modern dancer, performing with dance companies in San Diego, San Francisco, and London. In recent years, she became a NIA instructor. Shelly also loved children and spent years working as a music and movement teacher sharing her magical imagination and gifts as a dancer, storyteller, and musician in school settings. Her stories, songs, puppets, flute, and guitar delighted children as she carried them into a world of gentle people and wondrous things. I can stretch my arms around the world and give it a great big hug, she wrote in one of her childrens stories. I can swing on a swing that hangs from the moon and talk to the stars all night long. I can ride a flying horse and gallop through the clouds I can shrink myself and crawl into a flower. I can lie down and take a nap with a petal as my pillow. I can leap onto a rainbow and slide down the side to land in a big pot of gold

Shelly said her greatest joy and accomplishment was her marriage to Paul. Shelly met Paul in California in 2005 and they moved to Sheboygan in 2013. Their time together was filled with tenderness, playfulness, and laughter. In the closing months of her earthly life, the devotion she and Paul shared was a source of wonder to many who were present to observe their deep love and respect for one another.

In addition to her husband, Paul, Shelly is deeply loved and survived by her parents, Michael and Linda McClain of Oceanside, California, her sister, Kristy and brother-in-law Justin, her brothers, Jonathan and Sean, and sister-in-law Adia. She is treasured as well by her father- and mother-in-law, Frederick and Louise Trost of Elkhart Lake, her sisters-in-law, Marianne, Margaret, Christine and Sarah, their husbands Adam, Thomas, Douglas, and John, and her nephews and nieces whom she adored, Luke, Reed, Grace, Simon and Clare, and close friends near and far.

A small family memorial service is being planned. Paul and his family wish to thank Dr. Steven Mark Bettag and the staff of the Sharon S. Richardson Community Hospice for compassion offered to Shelly. Memorials in Shellys honor may be made to the What If? Foundation, which helps to feed hungry children in Haiti (www.whatiffoundation.org). Shelly shall remain forever in the hearts of her family and friends as one whose life embodied the songs and dance of the angels.