Sharon Susan Monte

She was surrounded by music, regaling tales of her life, and the love of her family until her final moments with us. Sharon was the benevolent matriarch of our little family.A sister, mother, grandmother, cat mom, and many more things to all of the people who were important to her.

Sharon was a lover of good writing, good music, tasteful art, and interesting people. A fantasy and sci-fi fan, a devoted viewer of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and a “gamer” in the truest sense.

She loved playing cards, puzzles and computer gaming,

and you would be hard-pressed to find a more formidable Scrabble opponent. She read absolutely everything—from her dad’s old John Grisham books to Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy,

and everything in between. And though she would never admit it, she was an avid cat lover.

Sandy and Nosey walked with her in her last ten years, and she loved them as if they were her magical familiars.

She was deeply loved by her family, revered and respected by her friends, and vital to the operations of the businesses she worked with. She mothered, grand-mothered, and worked until her final days at home. Strong-willed and deeply determined, Sharon met life on her own terms and never allowed herself to be sidelined while there was still living, and loving of life to be done.

She influenced her family with all of these qualities and passions,

and those who survive her will remember everything she gave.

We are a tenacious, intelligent, forward-thinking, kind, generous, cultured, art-loving family. We have her, and the extremely full life she lived to thank for that. Her warmth and wisdom will be missed terribly by all of us who loved her. Our world will not be the same without her.