Sherry TEACHNOR

TEACHNOR, Sherry passed away peacefully on October 22, 2017 after a long and courageous battle against illness. After graduating from Mills College, she was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic in the 1970's, beginning a lifetime of serving others. She then graduated from Santa Clara Law School and was awarded a Reginald Heber Smith Scholarship to represent migrant farmwokers in Michigan. She continued to pursue justice for farmworkers as the national coordinator for local programs at the Migrant Legal Action Program in Washington, D.C., where she met Michael McCrory, her husband of 37 years. She worked as an international law consultant in Hong Kong, Singapore and Brunei before moving with Michael to Tucson to pursue civil rights cases for strikers in the Phelps Dodge copper strike as special counsel for the United Steelworkers. Following the strike cases, she and her husband opened a private practice office in Tucson that also included work in Ajo and Hermosillo. She continued that practice in Tucson and Ajo after Michael joined the City Attorney's Office. The 1993 assassination of her friend, Guy Malary in Haiti, led to a Haitian art fundraiser that blossomed into Haiti Arts/Galeria La Sirena, a Latin American and Caribbean art gallery in Tucson. Sherry loved being able to provide an outlet for local and international artists and original art that was filled with bright color and vitality to her clientele. Sherry advocated for many progressive and social justice causes, candidates and values in Arizona, the US and the world, over her entire life. She loved her friends and her five hounds, Basil, Daphne, Buddy, Sally, Pippen. For remembrances, she wanted contributions to Partners in Health. A Celebration of her Life will be at Tucson Botanical Gardens at 4:00 p.m., Friday, November 3, 2017. Arrangements by DESERT ROSE HEATHER MORTUARY.