Sherril A. Metzger went home to be with the Lord February 19, 2023, having enjoyed 86 years of family, friends, music, travel, work, and service to God. Sherrie was born December 12, 1936, in Lincoln, Nebraska, the second child of her parents, Ross and Lauretta Metzger. In the early 1940s, the family moved to Colorado, and Sherrie and her brother Lanny grew up in Denver. She graduated from Denver’s West High School in 1955 and soon began working at the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, later known as Mountain Bell, and later as US West. Still working for the Bell Telephone System, Sherrie moved to Southern California in the early 1960s, but returned to Denver in the early 1970s to be closer to her aging parents.
While working for Mountain Bell, Sherrie enjoyed participating in company bowling leagues and, especially, singing in the Mountain Bell Singers. During her time with the Singers, Sherrie showed her talents both for singing and drama, staging choral productions of many musicals in addition to adding her soprano voice to the chorus. Sherrie made many close and lasting friendships with her choir colleagues; she considered the choir her second family.
Singing with the choir also led to many opportunities for travel and photography – two of Sherrie’s favorite hobbies. While singing with the Mountain Bell Singers, and later the Rocky Mountain Singers and the New Chords, Sherrie traveled literally all over the world: the U.S.S.R., Romania, several countries in western Europe, the British Isles, Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Estonia, and Sweden. In addition to international travel, Sherrie loved traveling to Hawaii, especially the island of Kauai, taking many trips – and hundreds of pictures – with friends and family.
Sherrie retired from US West after a thirty-year career with the company and soon began volunteering with what was then the Denver Museum of Natural History. After a couple of years, she was hired to handle scheduling for the museum’s educational programs and eventually retired – again – after it was renamed the Museum of Nature and Science. Not one to just sit around, Sherrie also volunteered for a few years with Ocean Journey, a.k.a. the Denver Aquarium.
In 1983, Sherrie accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior and was baptized and joined Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Arvada. She was an active member of the church for forty years, and enjoyed reading the scriptures, helping her brothers and sisters, and growing in her understanding of God’s will for her life. She would often comment, with happy anticipation, “Absent from the body; present with the Lord.”
Sherrie was predeceased by her parents, Ross and Lauretta Metzger, and her brother and sister-in-law, Lanny and Laura Metzger.
She is survived by her nephew, Todd Metzger of Flagstaff, AZ; her niece, Jenny Adams of Tucson, AZ; her great-nephew Nathan Adams of Tucson, AZ; and her cousin, Pam Metzger of Fort Collins, CO; as well as several family members still living in Nebraska.
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