Sheran L Terman's Obituary
Sheran L. (Ward) Terman died Sunday, May 20, 2018 at the home of her daughter Barbara in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was born April 16, 1935 in Wolf Lake, Indiana, to Velma Aileen (Hartman) and Garland F. Ward.
She married Don E. Terman on October 23, 1953, divorced in 1974. They had four daughters: Donna Terman (Bill Brown), Valerie Terman (Nilton Silva), Barbara Terman Gardner (David Gardner), and Jill Terman Potter (Richard Potter).
Sheran worked at the Whitley County REMC for many years before moving to Oregon in 1981. She worked at Good Samaritan Hospital in Corvallis until her retirement, then moved to Salt Lake City in 2000.
Sheran is survived by her four daughters and four grandchildren: Travis Kliever (Therry Fong Kliever); Russell W. Brown (fiancee Haley Kovacs); Daniel P. Kliever; and Rachel Sky Brown. She has one great-grandchild, Albee Tresna Kliever.
In addition, she leaves several step-grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and other family members and friends too numerous to mention, but who all have a special place in her heart.
If you are a friend of Sheran's and would like to help us celebrate her life, look at her Facebook page or contact her daughter Barbara to find out the time and place.
About Sheran
Maybe mom wasn't the sort of person that everyone noticed, but she was definitely the sort of person people remembered once they got to know her. She was small and quiet but she had a quick and wicked wit, intelligence, and a loving acceptance that made all my friends wish she was their mom too.
She never judged. Do you know what a wonderful quality that is in a mother? She definitely had standards she expected us to live up to, especially honesty and integrity. But she never criticized us or others for being ourselves and choosing our own path. She was open-minded and open-hearted. Even though she was personally quite shy, she made friends wherever she went.
Mom loved to travel. For an Indiana farm girl born during the Great Depression, she got around! In her sixties she and I went to Costa Rica, where she fearlessly drove on a potholed, winding section of the pan-American highway that we later found out was nicknamed the Pass of Death. In her seventies, she traveled to England to see her niece get married; to Greece, Turkey, Israel, Spain (including Gibraltar), Portugal, Germany, Alaska, Hawaii, and Mexico; to Brazil several times, to many destinations in the US, and I don't know where else. In her eighties, it was back to Brazil a couple of times to see her daughter Valerie and on to Indonesia to see her grandson Travis and meet his family. Throughout all her travels, she never complained or displayed any fear, just an interest in the people she met and the things she saw. Now she's gone to that undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns, and I'm sure she's enjoying all the new sights and sounds there as well.
The other big thing about Mom was that she enjoyed eating out. In retirement, having lunch at restaurants was her favorite pastime. She cultivated friendships with waiters, following them when they changed jobs. She also had a remarkable capacity for getting free meals! Sometimes the manager would comp her meal, and sometimes other people would see the little old lady with a walker eating alone at her table and buy her meal for her. If they felt sorry for her, they were way off base – she was living a life rich in experiences and love.
My sisters and I will miss her all our lives and will love her forever.
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