Sharon R. Streibel
Sharon R. Streibel
Sharon R. Streibel passed away March 12, 2012 in Wickenberg, AZ. She was born the 20
th
of December
1937 in Salt Lake City, UT. She moved
to Pocatello, ID at a young age where she grew up and attended St. Joseph’s
School and Pocatello High School.
She succumbed to complications of
Inclusion Body Myocitis, after bravely fighting the disease for several years.
Sharon was a summer resident of
Boise and Donnelly, ID, where she enjoyed many fishing trips and always
catching more fish than her surviving husband, Paul B. Streibel. Together they traveled to forty-six states, Alaska and Hawaii, and Canada after their retirement. She thoroughly enjoyed all the adventures and
meeting and making new friends wherever she went.
They lived in Dover, Delaware
while Paul was stationed in the U.S. Air Force in the early 1960’s.They moved
to Boise in the early 1970’s and that was their home. They did a 2 1/2 year residence in Wisconsin
and enjoyed the country life on their five acre residence.
Sharon and Paul bought their
residence in Salome, AZ in 2003 after traveling the Southwest looking for an
interesting area to be snowbirds for the winters. She would arrive in Arizona
in October, work and nurture her Cactus gardens, and go for rides on their Rhino
around the desert areas with friends that she loved.
Sharon was very talented,
knitting and crocheting anything anyone wanted. She was also involved in ceramics,
loved boating, camping, bowling, snowmobiling and she rode motorcycles. She
loved cooking and was an outstanding cook.
Sharon was a twenty-eight year
employee of Sears and made many friendships there that she cherished.
She was preceded in death by her
mother, Kathryn Gregan and her father, Art Gregan. Her son, Matt also preceded
her in death in December of 2010.
In addition to her husband, Paul,
she is survived by two brothers, Dennis Gregan of Blackfoot, and John Gregan of
Pocatello; two sisters, Mary Lou Ellsworth of Pocatello, and Delores Pugmire of
Shelly, ID; as well as many nieces and nephews.
A funeral service will be held at
1:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at the Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel,
Boise. A committal service will follow
at 3:00 p.m., at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery.
Memorials are suggested to be made to The
Myositis Association, Attn: Development Department, 1737 King Street, Suite 600,
Alexandria, VA 22314
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