- Date Of Birth: December 19, 1926
- Date Of Death: October 29, 2021
- State: Colorado
Geraline (Gerry) Frankie Sharp, daughter of Cleveland Ezell Sharp and Zora Elizabeth Jones was born December 19, 1926 at her family’s farm in the country near Calera, OK. Gerry was the youngest of 9 (5 sisters and 3 brothers) and remembered as a child tending chickens and vegetables, picking cotton, running down the lane past the mailbox to catch the school bus, and eagerly reading about the mountains of Colorado. Working to help support the family from a young age, she also put herself through school, earning a Business Education Degree at South Eastern Oklahoma State College in Durant, OK. As a young career woman, she worked for Gulf Oil Corporation in Tulsa, OK before initiating a job transfer and embarking to Denver, CO where she landed and stayed at the YWCA before sharing an upstairs apartment with her new girlfriends. She met her future husband Robert (Bob) Haskell Auerbach at a friend’s party in Denver where they discovered their shared joys of singing and enjoying the Colorado mountains. They married on 24 November 1956, before moving to Caracas, Venezuela for Bob’s early career as an Electrical Engineer. Gerry and Bob lovingly raised their four children in their Lakewood, CO home: Paul Frederick, Timothy Allan, and Catherine Elena (all born in Venezuela), and Nancy Anne (born upon their return from abroad). Full of joy and laughter, Gerry enjoyed singing a capella and travelling with the Sweet Adelines International, a global organization of lively women singers, boisterous square dancing with Bob and good friends, and travels including to Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska. She and Bob were partners for 65 years of their life journey, taking loving care of each other.
