SherrySherry was a truly awesome personality, and very highly respected in her home community of Smithers, BC. Her work and involvement with the native community became a total way of life & belief for her and she became totally immersed with the native healing and lore. The native culture became her life as she counselled and fostered more troubled teens, helping them find their individual paths and to sort out where life was leading them.
The respect given to my sister was incredible, as she learned this way of
life she also earned the right to hold her own sweat lodges and was a pipe
bearer for this community. Not bad for a non native raised in a middle
class family.
Sherry leaves on this mortal world a wealth of friends, 2 children (Tiffany
and Jaecen), 2 grandchildren (Chayse and Paige), a loving husband (Lou) who
married Sherry later in her battle with breast cancer which after surgery
and a fairly long remission, started attacking her body. Her philosopy in
life was that she was GOING TO LIVE WITH CANCER not DIE WITH CANCER. From
start to finish Sherry had 9 years and never hesitated to hold out her hand
to help, nor did she turn away from a desire to give her time and wealth of
knowledge from those willing to learn and grow. She attacked life and new
knowledge with zest, even learned to ski, regardless of the toll it took on
her body.
Sherry passed on with dignity in her home, with her family's love to help
her through this world to the next.
Sherry's time on this world was limited but to all those children and people
whose lives she touched - her spirit lives on and the lessons she tried to
teach are handed on through an act of kindness, a sense of self awareness
that one may never notice or acknowledge, but never-the-less it is always there.
I am proud of the work my sister has done and her accomplishments in this
world and yes I am proud to be her sister. I sincerely hope that the people
who knew her will get a chance to read this tribute.
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