Sherilyn Larson Gleason was born February 27, 1959 in Ann Arbor, Michigan to Onslow Peter Larson Jr. and Doris Elizabeth Boyce and died at the age of 64 on June 19, 2023 in the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah due to heart and lung complications.

When Sheri was almost three, her family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. She was raised there with her older brother and two younger sisters and was fortunate to have a close group of friends from childhood through high school. Her mother instilled in her a love of reading, which she maintained throughout her life. As a mother herself, she took her children on weekly trips to the library to check out as many books as allowed. Sheri was a very good seamstress and loved to make blankets, hats, pillows, and other items for her grandchildren using the skills she learned from her Grandma Bernice, who she visited in California during summers as a teenager. Sheri loved to talk about how she worked as a delivery driver on the Las Vegas Strip for her dad, who ran a printing company, before she had a driver's license. Sheri graduated from Chaparral High School in the school's first four-year graduating class and then enrolled in Brigham Young University.

In the fall of 1981, Sheri met the love of her life, Joseph Gleason. They were married for time and all eternity on December 28, 1982 in the St. George Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They loved attending BYU football games, played on an intramural coed softball team that made it to the semifinals, and Sheri worked in the Education Department's computer lab where she and Joe spent free time playing Aztec on the lab's Apple II computers. Sheri (Bachelor of Arts in Education with a minor in Mathematics) and Joe graduated from BYU together in August 1984 and moved to Des Moines, Washington near Seattle.

During the first school year in Washington, Sheri taught math at Tyee High School. Their first child, Randi, was born the next summer (1985) and Sheri turned her attention to raising children, with Jesse joining the family in 1988, and Jonathan in 1995. She spent immeasurable time with her children and was a profound influence in their lives, helping them with academics, supporting them in athletics and other activities, and being the mother behind two Eagle Scouts. The family spent a large portion of the summers of 1995 and 1997 in Florida while Joe was there for work, and Sheri provided great opportunities for sightseeing, water play, and other daily activities. She taught them daily through word and example and took great joy in watching them learn and grow.

Sheri served in various positions in the Church and particularly enjoyed working in the Young Women organization as camp director, president, and teacher. She loved serving the youth and blessed many lives. She also served from August 2017 to August 2021 as a Church Service missionary in the Family History Department, working remotely from home for fifteen hours a week and especially enjoyed the time she spent indexing newspapers. She and Joe served much of that time serving together as directors of the Seattle Stake Family History Library. Sheri spent countless hours in the service of others, in formal callings, as a visiting teacher and minister, volunteering at the schools, tutoring, and actively coming to the aid of whoever she knew needed her help.

Sheri loved her family deeply. Joe retired in November 2021 and they decided to move somewhere closer to children and grandchildren. The one decision she made before retirement was that she would never live in Montana or Rexburg, Idaho, because the weather was too extreme, so in May 2022 they sold their home of 35 years in Washington and moved to Archer, Idaho (a small community seven miles south of Rexburg) to be near Jesse and his family, much closer to Randi's family in Utah, and somewhat closer to Jonathan and his wife in Arkansas. She loved living in Archer and having a home frequented by grandchildren. The quiet community appealed to her, and she cherished the views from the front porch of the fields and hills to the east, from the back porch with the view of the pasture, and from inside watching deer and moose in the yard. She also loved driving around the countryside. She and Joe enjoyed a day trip together on May 17, 2023 after which she sent a text to her sister: "Just spent a beautiful day with Joe in Yellowstone." Unfortunately, that was the end of an idyllic retirement. Her heart, which had loved to its fullest, needed a rest.

Sheri is survived by her husband of 40 years, Joseph Gleason, her children: daughter, Randi (Mike) Shamo, two sons, Jesse Gleason, Jonathan (India) Gleason, grandsons:  Ashton Shamo, Tanner Shamo, Jacob Gleason, Packer Shamo, granddaughters Adaline Gleason, Dellah Gleason, Vienna Shamo, Sisters: Karen (Scott) Northrup, Annette (Steve) Wozniak. Sheri was preceded in death by her parents, and brother, David (Julie) Larson.

Funeral services will be held 11:00 a.m. Monday, June 26, 2023 at the Archer LDS Chapel.  The family will receive friends Sunday evening from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. at Flamm Funeral Home and again from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m. at the church prior to services.  Interment will be in the Sutton Cemetery.

Service will be live streamed at: https://my.gather.app/remember/sherilyn-gleason