Sharon M. Hyde

Sharon Marie Messinger Hyde was born on February 17, 1953 in Clarksburg, WV to James Wilbur Messinger and Edna Mae Mitchell Messinger. Sharon’s family and friends called her Sherri. Sherri was the eldest of six siblings and she and her youngest brother, James, were born on the same day, exactly 10 years apart. While most of Sherri’s early life was spent in West Virginia, she moved back to Austin, Texas when she was a senior and graduated from Del Valle High School in 1972. She married Thomas C. Hyde in 1975 and together they had two children, Sabrina Grace Hyde and Thomas C. Hyde, III. Sherri held various jobs in Austin until the semi-conductor business came to town in the late 70s with the company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) where she went to work and began her career in the semi-conductor industry. She worked her way up from the line where the “chips” were made to the teaching department where she became an instructor. Later, she moved from AMD to Cypress Semiconductor where she continued to advance her career into the Quality Assurance Department, from which she ultimately retired. Many people who knew Sherri, never knew that she was an artist at heart from a very early age; perhaps her first real love. Judging it unsustainable as a career pursuit, she kept it to herself and some of those very close to her. She particularly loved chalk and charcoal mediums but was just as good with acrylics. Sherri was a huge James Bond fan with Sean Connery being the only actor she considered the “real” double-O-7. Sherri had a real love of “style” and she lamented more than once that she wanted to bring back women’s hats, gloves, heels and fancy dresses and she certainly did her part in making that happen with many of her best pictures being those of her wearing such garments. More than anything else though, Sherri was an avid reader with “avid” not really being sufficiently descriptive to address her passion for reading. How many nights Sherri stayed up all night just to finish a good book is too many to count. She particularly loved Sci-fi but that was by no means all she read. Sherri was a generous and loving person who will be sorely missed by those who knew and loved her. Sherri was preceded in death by both her parents, her oldest brother, Steven, her husband, Tom, and her son, TC. She is survived by her daughter, Sabrina, her two sisters, Wanda Kay and Kathy Arletta and her two brothers, Ricky Ellis and James Wilbur, Jr., her aunt, Thelma Jean, and many nieces, nephews and cousins. Sherri passed away on December 15, 2022. There is no memorial service planned at this time for her, however, if you would like to contribute to her daughter’s Go-Fund-Me to help Sabrina get back on her feet again (https://gofund.me/dbf616ff), it would be most appreciated.

Sharon M. Hyde

February 17, 1953 - December 15, 2022