Sheryl Elizabeth Queen's Obituary
Sheryl Elizabeth Queen of El Cerrito, California passed away unexpectedly Thursday, August 1, 2013 when she collapsed during a meeting at work and was taken to Highland Hospital Trauma Center, but efforts to resuscitate her failed.
Age 55, Sheryl was born in 1958 in Berkeley, California. She is survived by her loving family: her parents, Donald and Mary Socorro Queen of El Cerrito, her sister Marsha Queen of Oakland, and her aunts and Uncles: Kathleen and Alex Salazar of Antioch, Ann and Rudy Salazar of Madison, Wisconsin and Jackie and George Queen of Lancaster, Ohio, as well as many nieces and nephews.
Sheryl moved at age four to San Diego where she graduated from Madison High School, specializing in Theater Arts at the Old Globe Theater. She returned to the Bay Area to attend college and begin her 32-year career with the Peralta Community College District, first teaching Word Processing and typing at Laney College, then joining the Peralta District Office where she was working as a Curriculum and Systems Technology Analyst. Also, she was active as a Union steward for Local 1021 SEIU.
She volunteered and was active with her parents in the local Alameda County chapter of The California Council of the Blind. She is especially remembered for her assistance in the marathon sessions of the state Resolutions Committee whose efforts did have a material impact on legislation and other programs for the blind. At the national conventions of the American Council of the Blind, she co-managed the large exhibit hall with its one-hundred plus exhibiters.
She is remembered by friends and family as a friendly and helpful person. She was an avid Forty-niner and Padres fan, and enjoyed ocean cruises and her trips to Italy, England, France, Australia and New Zealand, and annual trips to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, August 17, 2013 at 2:00 PM at the North Brea Community Church, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley California (corner of The Alameda and Los Angeles, AC Transit routes 7, 18 and 25).
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Peralta Colleges Foundation for the Sheryl Queen Memorial Scholarship Fund, 333 East 8th Street, Oakland, CA 94606, www.peraltafoundation.org.
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