- Date Of Birth: May 29, 1947
- Date Of Death: November 29, 2018
- State: Colorado
Sharon Roberta Gruner died November 29, 2018, at Hope West Hospice in Grand Junction, Colorado. Cancer killed her.
Sharon was born May 29, 1947, in Hibbing, Minnesota. Her parents were Robert and Angie Martinsen. They preceded her in death. She graduated at the Eagle Mountain High School at Eagle Mountain, California in 1964. She then attended and graduated from college. She taught a couple of years in Pomona, California. But, she wanted to wander and so she moved to Lihue Kauai, Hawaii. In Lihue in the early 1970’s she founded and operated a child daycare center that she fondly named, Octopus Garden.
In 1982, the family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado where their daughter Julia was born later that year.
Sharon is survived by her husband, David, her sisters, Marilyn Zeleski, Phoenix, Arizona, and Joanie Boyle, Lincoln City, Oregon. Also, her son Andrew Gruner, Tukwila, Washington, her daughter, Julia Goebel, Lakewood, Colorado, and granddaughters Ella and Carissa Gruner, Tukwila, Washington.
