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 the American Colonists (Parliamentarian National)
National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Honorary President National)
National Society Magna Charta Dames & Barons (Councilor)
National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (National Chairman)
National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (Honorary State Governor)
American College of Genealogist (Fellow)
United Daughters of the Confederacy (Division Parliamentarian)
National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (Recording Secretary General)
Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (Honorary Governor General)
Society Friends of St George's & Descendant of Knight of Garter
Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution
Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861
Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent
Order of Descendants Ancient Planters 1607 – 1616 (National President)
Plantagenet Society
Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (Parliamentarian)
National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva
Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers
Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192
Order of the Norman Conquest
Order of Alba
Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America
National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland
Order of the 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