Shelby Jean Dean Ward was born to Homer Austin Dean and Ilah Josephine Nation in Jackson County, AL. She married Dee Wallace Ward, Jr. and has one son Stephen Dee Ward.
Mrs. Ward attended Alabama Polytechnic Institute which is now Auburn University. She is the President of SDW Real Estate Investments, a travel consultant with Adventure Travel, and the Secretary - Treasurer of Rayward Realty and Wardean, Inc.
Society Memberships
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Past Vice President General)
National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (National Parliamentarian)
National Society Daughters of American Colonist (Parliamentarian National)
National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Honorary President National)
National Society Magna Charta Dames & Barons (Councilor)
Society of Sons & Daughters of Pilgrims (National Chairman)
National Society Colonial Wars (Honorary State Governor)
American College of Genealogist (Fellow)
United Daughters of the Confederacy (Division Parliamentarian)
National Society Dames of the Court of Honor (Recording Secretary General)
Continental Society Daughters of Indian War (Honorary Governor General)
Society Friends of St George's & Descendant of Knight of Garter
Hereditary Order Descendants of Loyal and Patriots of the American Revolution
Sons & Daughters of Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar
Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent
Order of Descendants Ancient Planters 1607 – 1616 (National President)
The Plantagenet Society
Order of the Descendants of Justiciars (Parliamentarian)
National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva
Sons & Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers
Order of Three Crusades 1096 -1192
Order of Norman Conquest
Order of Alba
Order of Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America
The National Guild of St. Margaret of Scotland
Order of Merovingian Dynasty
Other
Elected twice to the House of Representatives in Alabama
First Baptist Church of Opelika
Girl Scouts of America
Garden Club of Alabama
Opelika Arts Association
Opelika Historical Preservation Society
The Genealogical Society of East Alabama
Johnston Clan
Stewart Clan
Opelika Exchangettes
Opelika Beautification Committee
Opelika Tree Commission