A memorial service for Sherie Harding will be held at 11 am Monday, April 14, 2025, at the First United Methodist Church in Jefferson with visitation with the family beginning at 10 am. Following the service, everyone is invited to a luncheon to be held in the Fellowship Hall where everyone can share stories and memories with each other and the family. Memorials are suggested to First United Methodist Church in Jefferson or Berta A. Penney Memorial United Methodist Church in Kemmerer, WY. Services are arranged by Slininger-Schroeder Funeral Home and Cremation Care, Jefferson.
Sherie Elaine Harding was born January 24, 1941, to Samuel and Anne (Overy) Samuels in Rock Springs, WY. The family soon relocated to Evanston, WY, where Sherie attended school from grade school all the way through high school, graduating from Evanston High School in 1959. Her father built a two-room cabin in Bondurant, WY, where they spent lots of time every summer, giving her a great love for the forests and mountains of Wyoming including her favorite place, Granite Creek Falls in the mountains north of Bondurant. Following high school, Sherie attended a year of college at Weber State College in Ogden, UT.
Sherie married the love of her life, Earl Harding, on November 19, 1960, in Evanston, and they soon started their family with their first two sons, Samuel in 1961 and Thomas in 1963. She was a homemaker, taking care of and raising her boys, while Earl worked for the Wyoming Highway Department. In October of 1967, Earl received a promotion to resident engineer in Kemmerer, and the family relocated to Kemmerer soon thereafter.
The family grew to three boys with the birth of David in 1970. Sherie remained a homemaker for several years before going to work as a secretary and bookkeeper for a doctor, a job she had for many years until the doctor retired. She then went to work as a secretary and bookkeeper for an electrical contractor for a couple of years, before she went to work as an assistant at the local pharmacy. She truly loved this job, getting to see so many folks every day as they came to pick up their prescriptions, so much so that she stayed clear up to her retirement.
Sherie was an active member of the Berta A. Penney Memorial United Methodist Church in Kemmerer serving as organist, choir leader, Sunday School teacher, and whatever other jobs she was asked to do. With her beautiful soprano voice, she often was a soloist for church services and funerals. Her deep faith in Christ was a very important part of her life. She also was a den mother for Pack 13 of the Cub Scouts, hosting the weekly den meetings at her home. The family enjoyed spending time at her dad’s cabin every summer where they also fell in love with the forests and mountains of Wyoming.
Sherie was always supportive of her sons in all of their activities, helping in any way that was needed, and encouraging them all the time. It was largely from her example that her boys all learned how important it was to serve and respect others in any and every way that you can.
Following Earl’s retirement, Earl and Sherie relocated to Casper, WY, where David and his family were living. David and Earl started a construction business and Sherie was the company bookkeeper. After a few years, Earl retired and David took over the business, one that he still has today. In 2007, Earl and Sherie relocated again, this time to Jefferson, IA, where Sam was raising his family. Sherie became active in PEO and the United Methodist Women as well as First United Methodist Church. She and Earl enjoyed traveling back to Wyoming to visit, and they also loved seeing their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Sherie had a great passion for painting and crafting, and her hand-crafted gifts were highly prized by her family and friends. She was especially talented in creating her beautiful ceramic items that were meticulously painted in fine detail. Her boys especially loved her homemade shortbread cookies that she decorated so wonderfully in perfect detail with all different colors of frosting. She also loved to plant flower gardens, which often meant having to cover her flowers at night in Kemmerer due to freezing overnight temperatures, even in the summer months.
And, of course, everyone who knew Sherie undoubtedly knew that she loved and adored Snoopy and everything Snoopy. Her children and grandchildren always knew that they could expect a Snoopy card for every holiday, birthday, graduation, or any other occasion. And the outside of the envelope would be decorated with all kinds of stickers including, of course, Snoopy stickers. They also knew that for every birthday or Christmas present, she would love anything that was about Snoopy. She was probably Snoopy’s biggest fan, even resting comfortably under a Snoopy blanket when she passed away. That love of Snoopy will live on through her family forever, especially whenever they think of her.
Sherie was diagnosed with the early stages of dementia in 2016, and it was this disease that slowly took her life, a little bit at a time every day. By 2024, it had progressed enough that she had to be placed at Regency Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Jefferson. Her always happy and friendly personality made her a staff favorite. Eventually, her dementia finally took her life as she died very peacefully at Regency under the compassionate care of their staff and the staff of Hospice of the Midwest. Sherie passed away March 24, 2025, at the age of 84. Sherie was preceded in death by her parents and her sister-in-law Virgene (Harding) Heward and brother-in-law Charles Heward. She is survived by her husband of 64 years, Earl Harding of Jefferson; sons Samuel (Rhonda) Harding of Jefferson, and Thomas Harding and David (Shelly) Harding, both of Casper; grandchildren Daniel (Bri) Harding of Ankeny, Amanda (Travis) Ten Napel of Sibley, and Kody Harding of Casper; and two great-grandchildren, Joey and Beau Ten Napel; other relatives and friends.
