Lois Beryl Sherman
Memorial service will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 12, at the United Methodist Church in Diamond City, with arrangements by Coffman Funeral Home in Harrison.
Lois Beryl Sherman, 93, of Yellville, passed away Saturday, April 30 (2016) at North Arkansas Regional Medical Center in Harrison.
The daughter of H. Gerald Gaige and Bessie (Hensey) Gaige, Beryl was born June 20, 1922, in Croswell, Michigan.
In 1937, her father was called to serve as assistant minister at the People’s Church (interdenominational) in East Lansing, Michigan, where Beryl met her high school sweetheart and future husband at East Lansing High School.
Beryl graduated with high honors from Michigan State College in 1943, with a B.S. of Science in Agriculture and married Charles T. Sherman Jr. in August that year.
When her husband returned from Japan after World War II, they settled in Lansing, Michigan, and started a family. In 1953, they moved to Dimondale, Michigan, where she served as a den mother for the local Boy Scout Troop and was active in the Presbyterian Church. When their son started college in 1966, she worked part-time at Baker Publishing Company in Lansing, setting copy for several truck and construction trade magazines.
After her husband retired from General Motors in 1978, they moved to the Bull Shoals area in Yellville. They were both members of the Diamond City United Methodist Church where she was active in the United Methodist Women, which supported various missions, both local and abroad. She especially had a heart for projects helping children. She was a volunteer for the Lead Hill School’s reading program, and she served as a Methodist Lay Speaker at Diamond City and other Methodist churches in Northern Arkansas and Southern Missouri.
Beryl and her husband also participated many times in the annual Summer program of the Arkansas Conference School of Christian Mission at Hendrix College in Conway, which provided cooperative mission education opportunities normally beyond the reach of a local church.
She will be remembered as a gracious, loving, inspirational, and encouraging wife, mother and sister in the Lord. She loved living on Bull Shoals Lake where she could appreciate the natural beauty of the Ozarks, and using her floriculture education at Michigan State, tend to vegetable and flower gardening, while learning to guide armadillos and turtles away from her garden. Beryl and her husband enjoyed camping and were members of the Good Sam and Arkansas Road Runners camping clubs. They were also members of the Swinging Diamonds Square Dance Club, where they established many long-lasting friendships.
Preceding her in death were her parents; her brother, Robert G. Gaige, of Gassville; and her husband, Charles T. Sherman Jr.
Surviving her are her son, Charles Robert Sherman and his wife Debbie, of Yellville; several generations of nieces and nephews; and many dear friends.
Memorial service will be at held at 6 p.m., Thursday, May 12, at the United Methodist Church in Diamond City.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be sent to the United Methodist Women, Diamond City United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 1440, Diamond City, AR 72630.
Online condolences may be left at www.coffmanfh.com .
