Jerry McCoy

Jerry Lee McCoy passed into eternity on Aug. 26, 2025, two days after his 85th birthday. He was surrounded by loving family members and hospice caregivers in his home in Williamsburg, VA. Jerry was born in Wolf Lake, IN, to Harold and Sylvelda McCoy, grew up in Churubusco, IN, and lived there as a young adult after graduating from Wheaton College. He met his first wife, Janice, at Wheaton and together they owned a farm in Noble County that they called Sycamore Spring Farm. Their two children, Heather and Christopher, grew up primarily on this farm, where the couple also raised cattle and offered their home as a farm vacation inn to people from all over the U.S. and at least 4 other countries. In 1985, after the children were in college, Jerry and Janice moved to Virginia, where Janice had been raised. Over a period of 11 years, Jerry was farm manager of the 10,500-acre Zachary Taylor presidential estate in northern Virginia called Meadow Farm, and later as a website designer for Colonial Williamsburg-until Janice was killed in a head-on collision in 1996, and life changed forever for the grieving family. Sometime later, Jerry returned to Indiana to care for his ailing father and to make a new life in Winona Lake, IN. In 2002, a friend and colleague in Winona Lake introduced Jerry to Beverly Fields, whom he married in 2003, and who has been his wife for the past 22 years. In 2014, they moved to Williamsburg, VA, where they have been living during their retirement. Together they blended a family of 4 children and became grandparents to 7 grandchildren and now 1 great-grandson. During most of the past 22 years, Jerry worked as a professional large-format nature photographer. His work has won awards, has been displayed in galleries in both Winona Lake and Fort Wayne, in many friends' homes, and has been chosen to adorn the hallways of a new doctors' office building recently built outside Colonial Williamsburg, where he also volunteered for at least 6 years. Additionally, he has volunteered at his beloved church, Williamsburg Community Chapel. He is survived by his wife Beverly, his son Christopher (w. Shannon), daughter Heather, stepdaughter Tamie Parker Song, and stepson Herman Fields; grandchildren Caleb Slining, Katrina (h. David) Troyer, Tiffany McCoy, Juliana Fields, Tyler McCoy, Carissa McCoy, and Jacob Fields; great-grandson Deeks Troyer; and nephews, a niece, cousins, and their children. Jerry will be interred at Merriam, IN Christian Chapel Cemetery after a viewing 9:00am -12:00pm. Funeral will begin at 12:00PM following the viewing at Sheets & Childs Funeral Home in Churubusco on Thursday, Sep 4, 2025. Sheets & Childs Funeral Home has been entrusted with these arrangements.