Sherry L. Schott, who had worked in sales and later was a hot line counselor, died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at Carroll Hospice's Dove House in Westminster. She was 51.
Sherry Lee Swanson was born at Fort Meade and moved with her family to South Bend, Ind., in 1960.
In 1970, she moved with her family to Woodlawn, where she graduated from Woodlawn High School in 1976.
After high school, she began working in sales and became manager of Jack's Clothing store in Westview Mall. She later went to work in insurance sales for the John Hancock Insurance Co. in Woodlawn.
While working for John Hancock, she met and married her husband, J. Bernard "Bernie" Schott, who also worked for the company, in 1982.
She left the insurance business to raise her children, and later returned to work in the early 1990s as a manicurist for Elements of Style in Sykesville.
"For the last 10 years or so, she had been a homemaker," said her husband, who works for Nationwide Insurance Co.
Mrs. Schott, an Eldersburg resident since 1986, had volunteered with the House of Ruth and Baltimore County Crisis Hotline, where she answered calls and counseled women suffering from abuse.
She was an active member and had served on the board of the Quail Meadow Home Owners' Association.
Mrs. Schott was a communicant of St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church in Sykesville, where a Mass of Christian burial was offered Saturday.
Also surviving are a son, J. Adam Schott of Canton; a daughter, Jenna C. Schott of Eldersburg; and two sisters, Colleen Swanson of Westminster and Denise Edwards of Owings Mills.
