Sharon Roseme

Sharon Roseme
6/8/2010


Sharon Roseme , a fifth generation native of Placer County California died peacefully of natural causes at her home in Newcastle, California, on June 8, 2010, at the age of 56.
Sharon is survived by her daughter Hilary Glenn, a native of Loomis, California; her brother Eric Roseme, also a resident of Loomis and Auburn Native; sister Karen Roseme of Mammoth Lakes; and Mother Diane Day of Los Altos. She is also survived by her long time companion Michael Meyer of Sacramento.
A lifetime resident of Northern California, Sharon was a proud product of that state's superb educational heyday. She was allegedly conceived in a Studebaker at Strawberry Canyon on the UC Berkeley campus and finished her schooling at Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law after graduating with degrees in linguistics and psychology from UC Santa Cruz. Sharon's original plan to use the law to save the world was sidetracked by a 30 year career in commercial real estate law inspired by visiting professor John Costonis. He described the practice as skillfully conducting a symphony of diverse and warring players: landowners, developers, government and users. She pioneered the world's largest public retirement system's initial investments in real estate. She was the first woman and one of the youngest real estate lawyers honored by her peers in the Best Lawyers in America. She was passionately devoted to her career and her law firm, MHA of Sacramento. Sharon was also passionately devoted to her heritage in Placer County and championed many local issues such as trails, open space, affordable housing, education, and women and children's issues, particularly after her retirement in 1993. Sharon believed in family ritual and tradition. She spent time every summer at Lake Tahoe engaging in the traditional hikes to Eagle Lake, the Angora Lakes, and the family pastime of crawdad fishing, ensuring that her daughter Hilary did the same. Thanksgiving and Christmas menus and their traditions were almost sacrosanct, as was placing flowers on the ancestral grave of her grandmother Alice Slade Day every memorial day.
Sharon took up running late in her life and ran thousands of miles with companion Michael Meyer at home and everywhere they traveled. She joined Michael in hundreds of races and sometimes finished before dead last. Her proudest sports achievement was the swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco, which she completed.
Sharon traveled the world, achieved highest honors in her law profession, excelled in her educational pursuits, raised a talented and radiant daughter, and made many diverse friendships, but always returned to her birthplace and home of the Loomis Basin. She will be remembered fondly by all who knew her.