Sherrie R Misek

Sherrie Rose Misek, 76, of Peyton, Colorado passed away on December 26, 2025, after a courageous and heroic life dealing with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for 55+ years. She persevered daily, through the physical and emotional pain, to be present with her immediate family sharing her joys and whit, but not her dinner rolls or desserts. She never wavered in her spiritual support for others by lighting candles like beacons for those who needed healing, prayers, or hope. Sherrie extended that grace to herself the last decade of her life working on herself to heal from physical and emotional pain which life brings each of us; trying to better understand life and all the craziness, chaos, and painful things that we as humans endure and cause others to endure. She learned to forgive herself for her behavior that contributed to others’ pain but worked extensively to forgive all those who tried to break her.

Sherrie was born in Denver, Colorado on July 17, 1949, at St Anthony Hospital, to Cecilia and Guy Johnson. She graduated from St Joseph Catholic School, going there from 1st to 12th grades. All 12 years, Sherrie was the tallest girl in the school and the only red head. Being different targeted her for bullying, but instead of defeating her, the experience helped shape her tenacious personality and channel her creativity as a beautician. Sherrie graduated from Emily Griffith Opportunity School 2 years after high school. She followed in the footsteps of her mother Cecelia, who as a beautician who worked at St Johnson hospital. Sherrie persevered and had a lengthy and successful career helping other women look and feel good about themselves.

Sherrie worked her first beautician job at Montgomery Wards beauty shop off Broadway and Center Street, in 1969. She also married James Edwin Misek on October 11th of the same year. Sherrie became a manager just months after starting due to her work ethic and people skills. However, after a year she realized that day-care was too expensive and it was difficult to raise a child with both parents working. To keep supporting her career and passion, James and her father Guy Johnson built Sherrie a beauty shop in their first home. Sherrie became a female business owner and entrepreneur in the early seventies with the business name of Sherrie’s Hair Design. Sherrie’s Hair Design followed three different homes and after 60 years provided customers with Sherrie’s unique style, friendship, and an individual sense of beauty.

Sherrie and James just celebrated their 56th Wedding Anniversary this past year. James reminisced that there was lots of love, trials, challenges, and emotions in their marriage, which they worked on all the way until the day Sherrie passed. This commitment through adversity is an example of meeting life where it is and working through the obstacles together.

Sherrie was a loving, compassionate and caring person, who never backed down from a fight, standing up for what she believed and knew as truth. She was everyone’s biggest cheerleader, cheering for the underdog, standing up for anyone bullied, less fortunate and those unable to speak up for themselves. She stood for women’s rights, equality of men & women, but most passionately she would stand and fight anyone who wronged and mistreated her kids, her husband and herself. She loved doing hair, dancing, music, shopping, clothes, fashion, jewelry, sewing, taking pictures, arts and crafts, new gadgets gardening vegetables and flowers, all animals & creatures of nature and earth (except for bees, miller moths, spiders & snakes), complimenting others, watching her kids and grandkids play sports, spending time at Estes Park, her home on Chase Way and cheering for Caitlyn Clark (#22) and the Indiana Fever.

Sherrie cherished her loving memories of her husband James E Misek; her children, Shannon M. Misek and James M. Misek; her beautiful granddaughters Haillee R. Misek & Jessi J. Misek, Kayla Misek and Brittany Scott; sister Deborah Johnson-Saso and hosts of other nieces, nephews, cousins, and in-laws; not to mention all the loving memories of her family whom passed before her, along with her friends and customers she enjoyed seeing weekly, catching up while doing their hair. Sherrie would have been remised not to mention two people who stayed true blue to her over the years and are still her on earth. Loretta Hansen, a customer who became an amazing friend of 50+ years, never missing a birthday, anniversary or get well card; and Jere Misek her sister in-law, who kept in touch from New Jersey on the phone often, being each other’s confidant, friend & therapist, leaning on one another about life, health issues and anything else in-between.

The family of Sherrie wishes to extend our deepest and most sincere thanks to Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care for their compassionate support, loving care, kindness, and dignity you helped give Sherrie and the family during one of the most difficult times of their lives.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be given to Humane Colorado, www.humanecolorado.net formally known as the Dumb Friends League. Sherrie & Jim adopted Bobbi Sox 17 months ago, from Humane Colorado, which allowed Sherrie to share the gift of unconditional love with an amazing creature, making each day a bit easier to get through because of Bobbi Sox’s presence. Sherrie had dogs all her life, she believed dogs to be angels, which is not too far off since DOG spelled backwards is GOD.