Sherry Darlene (Darleen) Herrmann, age 73, passed away in Madison, AL. Sherry was born in East St. Louis, Illinois at 12:13 P.M. on February 16, 1947, the only child of the late William C. Hermann and the late Dorothy J. Pense. She graduated from E. St. Louis High School in 1965 and worked for Aetna Life and Casualty for eight years, moving to Belleville, Illinois Hospital when Aetna moved to the county. She began working for the Civil Service Commission in St. Louis Missouri after 1 ½ years at the Hospital and stayed with the CSC when it became Office of Personnel Management. She accepted an internship for Computer Specialist with TSARCOM and stayed there, moving from GS-5 up to GS-12.
She moved, cold turkey, to the Huntsville/Madison area in 1997 when BRAC’d by the Army and took a job with what became AMCOM. She and her mother, who came down with her (her father died of cancer when Sherry was 16), loved the area at once. Her mother, who had already had cancer, died in November of 1998, and Sherry buried her cremains at Maple Hill Cemetery, where she will herself be buried in the same spot. After her mother died, Sherry tried various churches, and finally joined her beloved Grace Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., becoming an elder there. She dearly loved all her friends and her family, even though most of the family remained in Missouri.
Preceding her in death were two cousins in Fredericktown, Missouri, C. (Junior) Pense and Ron Pense, a cousin in Smithton, Illinois, Evelyn Edmiston, a cousin in Pennsylvania, William Pense, and a cousin in Belleville, Illinois, John Pense, plus various second cousins in Bismarck, Missouri, Anita Gedek, Scott Yates and Sandra Brais.
Visitation will be Wednesday from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm at Laughlin Services Funeral home followed by a service at 12:00 pm, with Pastor Robin Palmer of Grace Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will follow at Maple Hill Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Grace Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., or to the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association, or any favorite charity.
