Sherry Mae Weidensall, 59, of Alum Creek passed away Saturday, October 10, 2015 at her home.
As following her wishes, she is being cremated. A celebration of life will be held Saturday, October 17, 2015 from 5:00 – 6:00pm at Sunset Hills Missionary Baptist Church in Coal City. In lieu of flowers, donations are appreciated to help with expenses. Please direct donations to Maxine Kelly, P.O. Box 904 Coal City, WV 25823.
R.I.P. AHAW
Sherry … I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, 6 May 1956, but moved two years later to Charleston, West Virginia (my mother’s home state). I have an older brother, David, living with his wife and two sons in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and a younger sister, Tara, living with her husband in Colorado Springs (Woodland Park), Colorado. My father, a practicing D.O. in Cleveland, began a second career as a Pharmacist once we had relocated to Charleston. My mother sold Beeline Clothing, and when I was in the 5th grade, she was offered a Regional Distributorship in North Carolina, and the family moved to Greensboro.
While in Junior High school, my father became ill (100% service connected) and we moved to Lockport, New York, where my grandparents were living, and near the VA Hospital in Buffalo. I attended Junior High and High School in Lockport, graduating at 16 years of age (double promoted from Sophomore to Senior) in 1973. While a Senior, I worked as a pharmacy clerk directly across from (you guessed it) the Navy Recruiting Office where I met LI1 Reese on Recruiting Duty. I have been “Navy Minded” ever since.
After graduation, my family and I returned to West Virginia, but over the next few years I made several trips to Norfolk, Virginia, even getting a personal tour of the USS Forrestal, by then Chief Reese.
I moved west for several years, graduating from college in Galveston, Texas in 1979, majoring in Art and Math, and receiving my pilot’s license, also in Galveston (Single Engine Land, 500 hours). I married (now divorced) and had two children, son Shawn, and daughter Maxine.
Returning to West Virginia in the early 80s, I purchased my first Macintosh computer and have been enamored ever since. Computer graphics, programming, desktop publishing, you name it. The emergence of the Internet has been a natural continuation of my love of the computer field.