Sherrill Dee Warner

Sherrill Dee (Sherry) Smith was born in Davenport, Iowa on the 26th of December 1941 to Granville Belmont Smith and Cora Ann (Ann C.) Vandermillen. Her dad was stationed several places during the war and after the war they settled in Redondo Beach, CA. After graduating from South High in Torrance, CA, in 1960, She applied and was accepted to the Los Angeles School for Art, but she opted to marry Tom Warner in 1961 and they remained married for 62 plus years.

She enjoyed traveling; her idea of roughing it was a Motel 6 with a black and white T.V., which was a big bonus while Tom was in the Navy and was transferred to many places. They lived in Waukegan, Il Twice, Bremerton, WA twice, Hawaii twice and finally settled down in San Diego, CA. In 2012 They moved to Prescott Valley, AZ.

Over the years she worked many different jobs. Right out of high school she worked at Mattel Toys, assembling voice boxes for dolls. She worked different retail jobs where she became a retail clerk supervisor with the Navy Exchange. Eventually she worked as a Legal File Clerk. Due to Tom’s many deployments, she mostly stayed home to raise their four children, Christopher Thomas (Juanita), James Patrick, Mary Francis, and Tara Leanne. Later, she loved watching their five grandchildren (Raymond, Anthony, Matthew, Devon and Aleena) and 4 great-grandchildren grow up.

Sherry had a very great talent in many artistic forms. In her early years she did oil painting and later enjoyed many craft projects and photography. She loves to crochet items that she shared with different charities. She also has helped other people learn to do many different artistic crafts. To help support her hobbies, she started selling some of her creations at craft shows.

Along with being involved with the Lady’s Guild, choirs, charities, kids and grandchildren, she had also supported Tom in his many endeavors.

The family requests no flowers. Make a donation to your favorite charity in her name. If you need the name of charities we support: St. Jude’s, T2T, DAV, American Cancer Society.