Vonette Shelton interviewed Vera Shelton, the daughter of Bud Stone and Laura Yates, at the Shelton Family Reunion in August 2004. At that time Vera was ninety-four years old and had been a widow for nearly eleven years.

Adra and Vera Shelton were the parents of eight children.

Vera's brother Forrest Stone's 1956 obituary can be read online.