Mary Sherod

Mary Ione Sherod,
age 103, resident of the Troy Center Genesis Health Care, formerly a long term resident of Wilmington, Ohio, passed away Tuesday evening,  July 16, 2013.

She was born August 27, 1909 in Cuba, OH, daughter of the late Ephraim Earl   Catherine (Leahy) Kibbey.  On April 8, 1930, she married Herbert Francis Sherod, who passed away in August 1950.
Mrs. Sherod first taught during the depression in a one room school house in Pansy, Ohio and then taught the second grade at the Jefferson Schools in Midland, Ohio from 1954-1973. She was a member of Ohio Retired Teachers Assoc., the Wilmington United Methodist Church, and the Clinton County Senior Citizens Center.

Surviving are her daughters- Barbara Frings of Troy, Ohio,   Joyce (James) Yarbough of Scottsdale, AZ; daughter-in-law- Norma Sherod, Wilmington; 3 grandchildren- Kathy, Cheryl, &  Sheryce; 4 great-grandchildren; 4 great-great-grandchildren;  brother- Harold (Pauline) Kibbey, New Vienna, Ohio and 2 sisters- Faye Delcamp of Pleasant Hill, Ohio and Jane of Florida.

In addition to her parents and husband, Mary was preceded in death by her son- Jerry Sherod, granddaughter- Lynette Sherod Coup; 2 brothers- Paul  & Earl and 2 sisters- Dorothy &  Helen.

Funeral Services will be held 11:00 AM, Friday, July 19, 2013 at the Fisher-Edgington Funeral Home, 97 West Locust Street at North Mulberry St., Wilmington. Interment will follow in the Miami-Corwin Cemetery, Waynesville, Ohio.

Friends will be received from 10 AM until 11 AM, Friday, July 19 at Fisher-Edgington Funeral Home, Wilmington, Ohio.

Contributions in Mrs. Sherod's memory may be made to the Clinton CountySenior Citizens Center, 717 North Nelson Avenue, Wilmington, Ohio 45177 or the Hospice of Miami County, PO Box 502, Troy, Ohio 45371 .  For more information and to sign the online guest book, please go to www.edgingtonfuneralhomes.com.

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