Sheila Harris

Sheila (Gerson) Harris of Monsey, NY, passed away on December 17, 2017. She was born in Brooklyn, NY on January 1, 1938 to Frieda Werk and Paul Gerson, and was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. At the young age of 19, Sheila met her husband Paul Harris at a hotel in the Catskill Mountains where she and her family were vacationing. They were married a few months later on December 20, 1957. Sheila spent most of her life as a stay-at-home mom, caring for her five children. However, throughout her life Sheila pursued many interests such as breeding and showing cats, collecting dolls, writing poetry, and most of all music—singing in church, in choirs such as the Rockland County Choral Society, local musicals, and, along with her husband Paul, in their own band “Skylark Music” that played at nursing homes and for events throughout the region. Sheila passed from this life to the next on December 17, 2017. She leaves behind her five children, Timothy, Lois, Faith, Christopher, and John, as well as sixteen grandchildren.

Visitation will be held on Thursday, December 21, 2017 from 10am to 11am at the Faith Assembly of God, 921 Chestnut Ridge Rd., Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977. Funeral Services will be held following the Visitation at 11am also at Faith Assembly of God. Interment will follow at the Frederick Loescher Veterans Cemetery in New Hempstead, NY.