Shirley was the wife of Huston B. Moore Jr., M.D., of Lewisburg. As a member of the Moore family, she worked for the school and Camp Shaw-Mi-Del-Eca, performing a variety of clerical duties.

Her husband was the son of Col H.B. Moore who came to Lewisburg in 1906 as the president of Greenbrier Presbyterial School, later Greenbrier Presbyterial Military School, then to Greenbrier Military School when he and his two brothers, Joe and D.T., purchased the school. Huston taught all levels of math, chemistry and physics. In the early 1970s, he left GMS to attend med school at WVU.

Shirley and Houston had two sons, Burr who died as a young child and David, an attorney practicing law in Lewisburg.

Shirley's brothers, Glen Alan ‘66, G. Richard ‘59, C. Douglas ‘62 and C. Wayne ‘60 are graduates of GMS.