I love you and  miss You Gramma :( I Wish your still here with me you were nice i am sorry for sometimes disrespecting you Rest in peace  :(

      Mom has been writing poetry since she was 7 years old.  She was employed by Beulah USPS as a clerk and a Rural Mail Carrier.  She retired after 34 years of service.
      Mom remembers she was active in the Beulah Community and with my children’s school activities.  She was a girl Scout Leader, a Den Mother, an Actor in the Beulah Melodrama and wrote for the Olios; helped with 4-H, the National Rifle’s Association Club, the PTO; helped with the Beulah Art Show, sang 25 years in the Yule Log Ceremony and was its secretary for 10 years.  For the Yule Log, she prepared and served homemade chili, rolls, desserts, coffee for every year she helped for all the volunteers.   She was an active member of the Good pasture’s Homemaker’s Club for 18 years serving as both Secretary and President.   As a member, she worked a booth at the State Fair for many years and she taught bread making and many different crafts.  She learned crocheting, knitting and sewing. 
     She learned to ride a motorcycle and rode alongside her husband John on many narrow trails, jeep roads and the 14,000 Ft. mountains of trails in Colorado.  She rode to Sturgis, to Baja, Mexico long before there was a road, to Las Vegas, Utah, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and all over Colorado’s Ghost Towns.  She survived many accidents while riding motorcycles.
     She embraced astrology, the Tarot, Numerology, I Ching, Crystals, Reiki, and many other positive metaphysical philosophies to better understand her place in this life and to understand others.  She grew in compassionate wisdom and understanding.  From the Soul level she helped to heal those she loved.  
     Mom passed on her wisdom to me.   Mom’s home was open to all, people and animals, with love and compassion.  


My Mother was New Aged before it became popular. She follow the ways of Stephen Halprin,Shirley  McClain  who she met at her retreats to Sedona Arizona. She was a published poet having several of her poems listed in the Library of Congress. There was so much more to My Mother and for those who didn't know her it was their loss and for those who did,their pleasure. There is much more but it will be at her Memorial service on the 25TH of January  at 2:00p.m. at Imperial Funeral Home.

Celebration of Life

Sharon was preceded in death by her Mother Elise Bee Burton and Father Joseph McClelland Sands; her husband John B. Petek; her granddaughter Amanda C. Petek-Grinstead; her granddaughter Sara D. Valdez-Real.  

She is survived by her children Cheryl (Ronald) Johnson, Shannon Petek, Kathryn Petek and John Petek.
Grandchildren; David (Julie) Petek, Jennifer (Kenneth) Padilla, Dennis (Sheena)  Valdez Jr, Nicholas (Nikki) Petek, Joseph (Chinell) Petek, and other important family members Hector Real.  
Great-grandchildren; Loren Petek, Cole Petek, Kiana Valdez, Mya Padilla, Sophie Padilla, Hannah Valdez, Armand Real, Yasmin Real, Nixon Petek, Nikland Petek, Alexandrietta Petek, Killian Petek, Keera Petek, Brandon Grinstead and Eric Grinstead.

OBITUARY

Sharon Leora Petek

April 27, 1941 – January 11, 2019

Imperial Memorial Gardens Funeral, Cremation & Cemetery

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