Cheryl V Seymore

Mrs. Sherri Via Seymore, a loving wife and mother stricken by a rapidly advancing form of Alzheimer’s disease. Died peacefully at her home in Bristol, TN. Surrounded by grieving family and friends on the night of Wednesday, October 24, 2024.

Mrs. Seymore was born in Endicott, NY, on September 21, 1947, the daughter of Alfred Decker Via and Ruby Maupin Via. As a young girl she moved with her family to Henrico County, Virginia just outside Richmond, where she attended the public schools. During a “sock hop” at Tuckahoe Junior High in 1960, she met a boy who turned out to be the love of her life. Robert Wiley Seymore, known as Bobby. They would attend different high schools – Sherri became a majorette at J.R. Tucker High; Bobby a football and track star at nearby D.S. Freeman High – but they were teenage “steadies” throughout.

After graduation in 1965, however, life had other plans and took them in different directions. Bobby joined the Navy. Sherri stayed in Richmond, becoming an office manager in the engineering department of Phillip Morris. Eventually both would marry different partners and have children.

Years later, their marriages having ended, the two encountered each other again, and the teenage flames, which had never died, flared anew in middle age. They wed in 1992, an occasion that led to a feature article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch about the remarkable journey of their romance. Their marriage would last 32 years. They lived first in Deland, Florida, where Bobby was a senior sales representative for Abbott labs, and Sherri was Human Resources Manager for CPH Engineering.

The couple retired to Bristol, TN in 2003. There Bobby went back to school and became a registered nurse, working at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, while Sherri made a comfortable home and continued working remotely for CPH Engineering. For five years they both volunteered for the Sullivan County Police Auxiliary.

In addition to her husband, Sherri is survived by a brother, Billy Via of Oilville, VA; son Eric C. Davis of Johnson City, TN; adopted daughter Andrea D. Harless of Bristol; grandson Eric B. Davis of Bristol; granddaughters Monice-Cheyenne D. Davis of Lawrenceville, VA and Ainsley S. N. Davis of Bristol, and three great-grandchildren.

A memorial Service celebrating the life of Mrs. Seymore will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday November 2, at the Jesus Christ Church of Latter-Day Saints, 13 Heritage Drive, Bristol, VA. In leu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be made to the national Alzheimer’s foundation or to the Amedisys Hospice of Bristol