Sharon ANDERSON Obituary

ANDERSON, Sharon Ann (McCreery)
October 19, 1947 - December 14, 2013

Sharon was born in Apache County, McNary, Arizona to Robert Glenn McCreery and Beatrice Mae Bates. Nearby Whiteriver, Arizona was their residence where her father (a World War II Tail gunner on a
B-17 flying out of England) worked in a small store as an Apprentice
Indian Trader.
When Sharon was three, her parents moved to Alameda, CA where Sharon lived through 3rd Grade. The family moved successively to Hayward, CA, Portland OR, and Seattle, WA before settling permanently in Glendora, CA in 1961.
Sharon was an amazing wife to her husband John Edward Anderson and a very loving mother to her daughter Michele Mallie Serhan and her son Matthew John Anderson. She was also a proud and loving grandmother to Mallie Samira Serhan, age three, and Oliver Abraham Serhan, age one. Sharon was loved, adored, and respected in every way by her entire extended family. She was an English teacher for over thirty years teaching ten years in the Ontario-Montclair
School District and the following 20 years at Montclair High School in the Chaffey Joint Union High School district. Sharon was a much-appreciated teacher who loved and respected her students.
Sharon loved easily and laughed often with family and friends. She graduated from Glendora High School as a part of the class of 1965. She met her husband to be, John, at Citrus Jr. College in 1966 and earned her BA in English in June of 1969 from Cal State Los Angeles. She married John the day after graduation on June 14, 1969 and was married 44 ½ years to the day. In 1973, she earned a Masters degree at Cal Poly Pomona.
Sharon enjoyed life immensely and was a constant loving companion to her husband John and showed endless love to a long string of pets, especially the family cats and dogs. Sharon loved to travel far and wide or simply walk to downtown Glendora hand in hand with John. Together, they saw a large part of the US as well as Europe, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and even part of North Africa. Sharon was an avid reader who thought of books as good friends.
Sharon passed away after a two-year battle with colon cancer, which she suffered through with her characteristic stoic and determined spirit. She is also survived by her beloved mother, Betty McCreery, her brothers Robert Michael McCreery and sister-in-law Laura McCreery, and Thomas Glenn McCreery and sister-in-law Jody McCreery along with niece Katy McCreery, nephew Adam McCreery, and son-in-law Ramy Serhan. She will be sorely missed.
Services for Sharon will be held at Glenkirk Church, 1700 Palopinto Avenue, Glendora California on January 4th, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a small donation to City of Hope or the cancer charity of your choice in the name of Sharon Anderson.

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Published by Daily Bulletin on Jan. 1, 2014.

Memories and Condolences
for Sharon ANDERSON

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Jane Stephens

November 28, 2018

I am deeply sadden by he obituary. Sharon was one of the sweetest, soft spoken ladies I have ever met. She always had a smile on her face. So sorry she had to suffer with this disease.
RIP Sharon, you are loved.

Jaime Castillo Verduzco

November 28, 2018

Before I graduated from Montclair High School, the counselor quipped at me when I revealed to him that I was applying to UCLA as an English major: "But those are a-dime-a-dozen!"

I remember knitting my brows and staring intently. "Well," I replied with soft sarcasm, "that's certainly an encouraging opinion." He quickly gathered he had not given the best impression of a mentor, and blabbered something now forgotten to oblivion.

And yet, I applied to my now Alma Mater as an English major due in no small part to a wonderful woman who had also been an English major. Mrs. Sharon Anderson was an agile, charismatic, gracile woman. Her humor amused me thoroughly, her play on words and genuine love of grammar and language inspired me to seek and express that love myself. The girthy class dictionary she named Big Bertha, was like a living pet inviting me to play, to enjoy myself with wanton abandon in all the parts of speech and the IPA.

Along with Mrs. Cheryl Lemke at Oaks Middle School, Mrs. Anderson in my sophomore year in high school left a beautifully indelible mark on my life adventures in language. Along with the league of extraordinary educators at the "high-school-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-freeway", she and they shaped me to become a man who seeks to become a better version of himself, despite the odds, despite the failures. And they also shaped us all.

After I graduated, she soon retired from teaching, so when I returned to MoHi to greet those to whom I would forever be grateful, she was gone. I promised myself that I would look for her, to leave no important heart unthanked in life. And now (four years ago, I have just learned), she is gone from this world...

Though I deeply lament an opportunity to show my gratitude has now escaped my grasp, I hold that memory of joy and humor and true learning that she happily gave to me and to us. I take a piece of that demeanor with me, in my hope, in the times I choose to see the brightest parts of life. I know perhaps she was far more complex than my teenage self could know, but I saw a good woman, a great educator, a wonderful person. And that part of her I knew, lives on in me.

Rest in Peace, Mrs. Anderson. Thank you for helping me find my voice, even in the beckoning silence of a blank page.

Love,

Jaime

Huy Tran

November 28, 2018

I just found out today, and I am overcome with grief. I thought I would have more time to visit her and thank her as I did the other teachers, but the last time I was there she was no longer there. She cared so much for her students, that when she walked by to return my paper, I was asleep. She did not wake me. She was definitely one of the teachers that loved teaching. What I remember beyond her lessons, was her compassion, and love for her students. Anyone who met her would feel that, and hopefully continues to pass that onward.

January 28, 2014

A lovely lady, an outstanding teacher, a gracious colleague: We at Montclair High were blessed to know her.

Eric Malstrom

January 2, 2014

One of Glendora's best. Sharon will be missed.

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