- Date Of Birth: March 13, 1959
- Date Of Death: February 17, 2021
- State: Illinois
Sheril Lynne “Sheri” DeJong, age 61, of St. Charles, passed away Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at Delnor Hospital in Geneva.
Sheri graduated from Aurora University with a BSN in nursing. She started her career at Mercy Center Hospital, worked at Wildrose Elementary school as a nurse and finished her career at Dr Banti’s private practice. It was such a reflection of who she was, a caring, loving, help others with anything they needed person.
She had 3 great loves in her life that shaped everything she did.
She loved God with her whole heart. She was a prayer warrior, she had journals and lists and scraps of paper everywhere of reminders of who to be praying for and when. She loved studying the Bible and learning more about Him and she enjoyed telling others about Him.
She loved her family. She was a devoted daughter. She was a loving, caring, giving wife. She was a terrific self-sacrificing, loving mother. But her favorite role was that of a love them at all costs, caring, spoil them rotten grandma. She was happiest and most content with a grandkid in her lap, reading or singing to them or just snuggling.
She loved her friends. She spent a lifetime of developing close relationships. She was a great listener, she was quick to laugh, she wanted to include everyone, and she wanted to make sure you felt special. She was always the first one to offer to help or just be there if you needed someone to be with you. She spent most of her time cultivating those relationships and checking up on folks.
She was fun loving, liked to be included and was ready to celebrate anywhere at any time. She was caring, generous, had a gift of hospitality and a deep love of people.
She was a fighter, she courageously battled cancer for more than 12 years, and she experienced God doing miracles in her life over and over. And when it was time she said, I just want to go home.
She was confident when she breathed her last breath, her next breath would be in the loving arms of Jesus.
She will be greatly missed and while we grieve, she would absolutely want everyone to know that she is celebrating with no more pain, no more tears and a new body in Heaven.
