As for her wishes, she will be cremated, and there will be no services. Runge Mortuary is assisting the family.
She had been sick for many years, but always managed to make a life for herself up until her last battle with MS took her down the last four years, and no one seemed to be able to help her, but she fought it with her last breath.
Sheri was born Feb. 7, 1956, in Davenport, Iowa, the daughter of Gerald Larry “Jerry” Houser, dec’d 17 April 2008, Mason City, Iowa, and Gladys L. (Lowe) Houser.
When her mother remarried in 1965, they spent two years in Germany and one year in Aberdeen, Md., and then back to Bettendorf, Iowa, and she graduated from Bettendorf High in 1974, and then went on to study accounting and business management at Marycrest and Scott Community College and Augustana. Before her health got too bad, she moved to Virginia, Minnesota, Dallas, San Antonio, Texas, where she worked as an insurance underwriter until she moved to Florida for nine years, and then the last four years, she was back here in Iowa in Davenport.
After she moved back here and was not able to work, she took up making jewelry, outdoor yard art, working in the yard and loved to read and travel and helped her mother do research on her dad’s family and her mother’s family.
Those left to honor her memory include her son, Jason B. Houser (Danielle Anderson), and their son, Charles Gwin Houser, of Walcott, Iowa; her mother, Gladys (Lowe) Treadway, of Bettendorf, Iowa; sister, Gayle R. Bush, of Davenport, and her three children, Misty (Matt) Parenzan, and their six children, of Florida, Caanan S. Bush, Seattle, Wash., Brittany R. (Bush) (Sergio) Mallas, of near Los Angeles, Calif.; her brother, Larry M. Houser, presently of Davenport, as was living with his sister to help her; her Uncle Charles E. Lowe, Rock Island, Ill., and his son, Mark E. Lowe and family; her Aunt Mary Ellen Miller, Corydon, Iowa; and her Uncle David Miller and family of near Des Moines. Stepfathers three children from a former marriage.
She was preceded by a brother, Mark Allen Houser, who died shortly after birth; her father, Gerald L. Houser; his parents and her stepfather, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Charles L. Treadway dec’d 3 March 1998 and Uncle Marion Dale Lowe, who died in infancy. Her grandparents, Willard H. Lowe and Rovene Melvina (Dyer) Lowe Schurr; and stepfather, Harold G. Schurr.
Memorials may be made to the family to go to her favorite charities.
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