Sherry Alexander

Memorial services for Sherry Alexander will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, June 25, 2007 at Stevenson-Wilson Funeral Home with Celebrant Kenna Rose officiating. Inurnment will be on June 30, 2007 in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Bloomfield, Iowa. Mrs. Alexander, age 50, of Gillette, Wyoming died on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at Campbell County Memorial Hospital of breast cancer. Sherry Denise Taylor was born on January 3, 1957 in Kirksville, Missouri, the daughter of Grover Nym and Betty Jean (Sylvara) Taylor. She was raised and educated in Bloomfield, Iowa, graduating from high school in 1975. Upon her graduation Sherry attended Indian Hills Community College in Centerville, Iowa. She met and married Stephen J. Jackson. Together they operated a family fuel hauling business in Centerville. They later divorced. In 1997 Sherry and her two sons moved to Douglas, Wyoming where she drove for different transportation companies, hauling railroad crews, she continued this work after moving to Gillette, Wyoming in 1999. In 2000 Sherry met her soul mate, Andy Alexander. They were married on December 20, 2001 in Gillette. Sherry was an artist of many talents. She loved her animals: dogs, cats, horses and the occasional raccoon. She enjoyed camping and fishing. Sherry was most in her element collecting rocks in the mountains or shells on a beach. She is survived by her husband, Andrew Alexander of Gillette, Wyoming; 2 sons: Eric Jackson of Gillette, Wyoming and Justin Jackson of Centerville, Iowa; mother, Betty Pexton of Douglas, Wyoming; brother Stanley Taylor of Denver, Colorado; 1 niece; 1 nephew and many aunts, uncles and cousins. She was preceded in death by her father, son Joseph Jackson, and brother, Steven Taylor. Memorials in Sherry?s name are suggested to benefit the Gillette Cancer Center at CCMH or Hospice Incorporate in Bloomfield, Iowa. Memorials and condolences may be sent in Sherry?s name in care of Stevenson-Wilson Funeral Home, 210 W. 5th Street, Gillette, Wyoming 82716 or via the internet at www.stevensonwilson.com.