Shirley Lee Pinkston, 90, of Atoka, TN, passed away December 11, 2025, at Baptist Hospital East. Shirley was born in the state of Tennessee on June 12, 1935.

The family will receive friends Thursday (December 18) at the Forest Hill Funeral Home from 12:30 until the service at 2:00pm. The service will be held by Brother Harold Bledsoe. Interment to follow in Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee.

Mrs. Pinkston retired from AT&T  as an operator and was a member of Bethel Baptist Church.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Albert and Mildred Pinkston; brother, William Pinkston; sister, Irma Jean Lashlee; great, great nephew, Nathaniel Pasco.

She is survived by brother-in-law, Ernest Lashlee; nephew, Harold L. Lashlee (Theresa); niece, Shirley A. Ferge (William); three great nephews and nieces, Kristy Lashlee, Roy Pasco (Kristina), and Brian Pasco; three great, great nieces, Savannah McFarland, Hailey Pasco, and Emma Pasco.