CHERYL JOHNSON Obituary (2022) – Boston, MA
Cheryl Rae Coffin Johnson died March 17, 2022. We all lost an angel. Cheryl was born in Boston August 20, 1947 to Tristram and Marvel Coffin. The spouse and children quickly moved to Cleveland, in which brother Mark was born. The up coming go was to Amarillo, where her father was director of the Improved Enterprise Bureau and where Cheryl grew up. She attended Amarillo Superior Faculty and St Andrews Episcopal Church, the place she began her long like of choral music. Cheryl graduated from Amarillo Higher College in 1965 and attended Amarillo College (AA Psychology 1967) and then the College of Texas, wherever she graduated with a BA in Sociology (Social Welfare Providers) in 1969. Her first posture was as a condition Little one Welfare Caseworker in Dallas. Not extensive right after, she met and married John, her partner for the upcoming 51 as well as years. In 1972, they moved to Seattle, wherever Cheryl earned her MSW whilst John was completing postdoctoral analysis schooling, the two at the College of Washington. Their a few exhilarating yrs in Seattle ended up created even happier by the start of their 1st daughter, Julia, in 1975. That yr, Cheryl and John migrated to San Antonio, wherever John started out a school position at the College of Texas Well being Science Centre. Their daughter Sarah introduced them fantastic pleasure, beginning with her birth in 1979. The ensuing yrs had aim on increasing their kids, but included volunteer and element time get the job done in social work. Cheryl rejoined her social work profession when she joined the Bexar County Healthcare facility District and College Clinic in 1991, in the end getting assignment to the Pediatrics flooring. It was in this location that her characteristics of endurance, quiet listening, empathy and professionalism flowered. Cheryl supplied outstanding providers and counseling to a stream of young ones and their families more than her time at College Clinic. Cheryl was an active member of St Francis Episcopal Church for numerous a long time, belonging to the altar guild and choir, as effectively as contributing her time and talents to women’s retreats, rummage gross sales and bake sales. Her neighborhood company bundled Stephen’s Ministry, the Shavano Park Women’s Club and a entire member of the Shavano Park Volunteer Fire Division. In none of these routines did she attract interest to herself. A enthusiasm, upcoming to loved ones, was quilting. This was an action that she totally cherished. She put together these operates of artwork for hospitalized small children, as nicely as her grandchildren, good friends and church. This involved contributing to the significant quilt celebrating the 1983 Folklife Pageant at the Institute of Texan Cultures. Her ‘natural habitat’ became the sewing room and her activities bundled quilt bees and any other activity involving quilting, together with an annual pilgrimage to Houston for the International Quilt Clearly show. Her passion was better for family members. She cared for her father in her house for the last decades of his everyday living and manufactured nearly everyday visits to her mom-in-law at her nursing home. For the final couple of decades, Cheryl experienced several wellness challenges, their combination main in the end to her death. She dealt with these challenges with the uncomplaining persistence and quiet resolution that were being attribute of her daily life. Cheryl is survived by her partner John, daughter Julia and spouse Scott Davis, daughter Sarah and husband Quentin Russell, granddaughter Charlotte Davis and grandsons Mark and Luke Russell. She was predeceased by her mothers and fathers Tristram and Marvel Coffin and her brother Mark Coffin.
Services are to be held at St Francis Episcopal Church, 4242 Bluemel, San Antonio, at 2pm Sunday April 3. In lieu of flowers, the household asks that any donations in her memory be designed in guidance of the St Francis choir.
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