Shelly Susanne Wolf Posivenko
October 9, 1977 – July 1, 2016
Carrollton, Georgia
Shelly Wolf Posivenko, 38, of Carrollton, Georgia, died Friday, July 1, 2016. She suffered a sudden cardiac arrest one week after delivering a baby girl.
Mrs. Posivenko was born Oct. 9, 1977, in Flint, Michigan, the daughter of Bob and Cathy (Holman) Wolf. She married Alex Posivenko in 2004 in Alaska.
The family moved to Iowa, and settled in Wayland when she was 7 years old. She graduated from WACO High School in Wayland in 1995. In 1999 she graduated from Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, majoring in practical Christian training. After graduation she became a missionary with Child Evangelism Fellowship, going on several short-term missions trips to Kenya, Morocco and Germany before becoming a local CEF director in Anchorage, Alaska.
After her marriage, she and her husband continued to live in Anchorage, where he worked for the University of Alaska. She also worked as an associate in an Anchorage elementary school and as an activity director for a retirement home. When her husband took a position at the University of Western Georgia, the family moved to Carrollton in 2012. She loved being a stay-at-home mom.
Surviving are her husband, Alex; two sons, Adrian, age 7, and Garrett, age 4; one infant daughter, Anora; her parents, of Wayland; her husband’s parents, Anatoliy and Anna Posivenko of Omsk, Russia; three brothers, Todd Wolf and wife Heather of Muskegon, Michigan, Andy Wolf of Buford, Georgia, and Dan Wolf and wife Hannah of Wayland; two sisters, Amy Wolf Henderson of Easley, South Carolina, and Megan Wolf Boland of Greer, South Carolina; three nephews; and five nieces.
Source: Almon Funeral Home & Southeast Iowa Union