Sheryl Leslie Turner

Sheryl Leslie (Manstrom) Turner of Frederick, CO, was born November 6, 1954, to Margie and Leslie “Swede” Manstrom. She passed in her sleep the morning of St. Patrick’s day, 2026, in Pueblo, CO, 14 months after a tragic fall that took her mobility. Her youth was spent in rural Wyndmere, ND, where she occupied her time playing with cousins, loving her pets, traveling to her family’s lake cabin in MN, and doting on her baby brother, John, who was thirteen years younger than her. Sheryl graduated from Wyndmere High School in 1973. She attended Josef’s School of Hair Design in Fargo, ND. After her training, she lived and worked in Bismarck, ND, and Billings, MT, until the later 1980s.

In the early 1990s, Sheryl met her husband, Herb Turner. Their love and devotion to each other spanned the next decades. She loved the big Italian family that adopted her into the fold and her years in the Denver, CO, area were happy ones. For a time, Sheryl worked for Hearing Dogs International, caring for animals which utilized her talents working with dogs: training, grooming and loving them. Her calm happiness spread throughout the workplace and touched many around her, both human and canine. Years later her sweet personality was evident as she worked at King Soopers in Firestone and later Walgreens in Erie where she retired in 2020.

The words used to describe Sheryl are sweet and kind. She had simple tastes and a tender heart for the people she loved and animals in her care. Her longtime dog companions, Freedom, Otis, Sophie, and most recently Keeva, brought her great joy and comfort. She asked about family member’s pets as much as she asked about her nieces and nephews. She loved watching the squirrels in the back yard of her home and the birds that nested in the eaves of the house in the springtime. Herb and Sheryl’s kitchen picture window faced a full open park with an unobstructed view of the Rocky Mountains. The hot air balloons and beautiful sunsets she watched were spectacular. In that neighborhood, she made good friends and regularly walked her dogs. She cared after people, asking about family, wanting to know how everyone “back home” was doing. Even though she hadn’t lived in her original ND community in more than 40 years, she was beloved when she came home to visit. It tickled her to go to the bar and feel like a celebrity when the locals who knew her as a child and teen would come to say hello and she immediately hugged each one!

Sheryl devoted countless days, nights, and weekends to the American Legion Post 1985 in Firestone, CO, volunteering at events and spending time with the many friends who became her “Legion Family.” Sheryl proudly held her Auxiliary membership there since 2006.

Sheryl is survived by her husband of 32 years, Herb of Frederick, CO, her brothers-in-law Terry Turner of Westminster, CO, Jamie Turner of Parker, CO and sister-in-law Kitty (Joe) Cacciatore of Lakewood, CO. Her older brother Michael Manstrom (Char) of Bismarck, ND, and younger brother John Manstrom (Jennifer) of Wyndmere, ND, also are grieving this loss. She leaves many nieces and nephews on both the Turner and Manstrom side of the family along with great nieces and nephews, all of whom she loved so much.

Sheryl was preceded in death by her parents, Leslie and Margie Manstrom, aunts and uncles Bev (Manstrom) and Charles, “Junior” Brosowske, Pearl (Manstrom) and Bob Muehlberg, her cousin, Steve Brosowske, her parents-in-law, Beverly and Ray Turner, and a sister-in-law, Becky Gassman.