SHERRY ALEXANDER

BLOOMFIELD  Sherry Denise Taylor Alexander, age 50, of Gillette, Wyoming, and former Bloomfield resident, died June 19, 2007 at the Campbell County Memorial Hospital, in Gillette, Wyoming.  She was born January 3, 1957, in Kirksville, Missouri to Grover Nym and Betty Jean Sylvara Taylor.  She was raised and educated in Bloomfield, Iowa, graduating from Davis County Community High School in 1975.  Upon her graduation Sherry attended Indian Hills Community College in Centerville, Iowa.  She met and married Stephen J.  Jackson.  Together they operated a family fuel hauling business in Centerville.  They later divorced.  In 1997 Sherry and her two sons moved to Douglas, Wyoming where she drove for different transportation companies, hauling railroad crews, she continued this work after to moving to Gillette, Wyoming in 1999.  In 2000 Sherry met her soul mate, Andy Alexander.  They were married on December 20, 2001 in Gillette.  Sherry was an artist of many talents.  She loved her animals:  dogs, cats, horses, and the occasional raccoon.  She enjoyed camping and fishing.  Sherry was most in her element collecting rocks in the mountains or shells on the beach.

She is survived by her husband Andrew Alexander of Gillette, Wyoming, two sons, Eric Jackson, of Gillette, Wyoming, and Justin Jackson, of Centerville, Iowa, her mother Betty Pexton, of Douglas, Wyoming, a brother, Stanley Taylor, of Denver, Colorado, a niece, a nephew, and many aunts, uncles, and cousins.

She is preceded in death by her father, a son, Joseph Jackson, and a brother, Steven Taylor.