Sheridan "Sherry" Ashcroft Thompson

Sheridan Ashcroft Thompson “Sherry” was born in Houston on the 14th of November 1929, to Sheridan A. and Florine Ashcroft Thompson, just two weeks before the stock market crashed to usher in the Great Depression. He departed on the journey from which nobody has ever returned on the 23rd of October 2017, at The Hallmark in Houston, TX.

Sherry grew up in Dallas, graduated from Highland Park High School and earned a degree in geology from Yale University, Class of 1951, where he was also a member of the Chi Psi fraternity. He served 2 years in the Navy as a Lt. J.G. aboard a troop transport in the Pacific Fleet. After a year at the Colorado School of Mines, Humble Oil Co. hired him to come to Houston in its Gulf Coast Division, where he worked for four years before branching out on his own. While on an oil expedition scouting opportunities in Banff Springs near Calgary, Canada with life long friend and fraternity brother Dick Bass, Sherry met the love of his life Judy Randall from Milwaukee. After a long distance courtship for over a year, they were married in Milwaukee in 1961, then settled in Houston.

At that time, Sherry started his new profession in the real estate business, forming Hill-Thompson, Inc., and earned a designation from the Appraisal Institute and membership in the Houston Board of Realtors. The company brokered and developed industrial parks, office buildings and owned Rose-Rich Shopping Center in Rosenberg for several years. Later in life, Sherry and Judy enjoyed fun and games in retirement with a home in Palm Springs, CA and a hideaway in Wisconsin.

Sherry is survived by his wife Judy Randall Thompson, his son Emery Thompson of Hoboken, his daughter Andrea Mitchelson of Greenwich, CT with her husband Douglas and their four children, Kari, Hallie, Sarah and Nicholas.

A memorial service honoring his life is to be conducted at eleven o’clock in the morning on Monday, the 30th of October, in the Jasek Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston. Immediately following, all are invited to greet the family during a reception to be held in the adjacent grand foyer.