Sherry Jane Witcher, 78, died on Nov. 9, 2025, at Stoney Brook Assisted Living in Copperas Cove after a lengthy illness.
Funeral services will be held at Sneed-Carnley Funeral Chapel in Lampasas on Nov. 16 at 2 p.m., with visitation an hour prior. Interment will follow at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Sherry was born in Lampasas to Charles W. Rutty and Hazel Joyce Black Rutty.
She was a woman of many talents and hobbies. Her creativity could be seen in her cooking, sewing and knack for decorating.
She loved to travel and traveled extensively throughout Europe while living there as a child with her family, and then again with her husband and young children later in life. She treasured those memories and experiences. Sherry also enjoyed life in the country and tending animals, playing golf, her time in the Garden Club, Officers' Wives Club, Las Damas at Central Texas College and on an advisory committee at CTC.
Sherry attended Lampasas High School and Central Texas College, where she took engineering classes that led to a 30-year career in the engineering department at Centel Corp., which eventually became Sprint Corp. While at Sprint, in addition to her engineering work, she was passionate about her work for United Way and March of Dimes.
Sherry was preceded in death by her mother, Hazel Joyce Setty; her father, Charles Rutty; her stepfathers Harold A. Thorp (Daddy) and Eugene W. Setty; and her brother, Charles David Rutty.
She is survived by her four children, Shelly Mahan (Dane) of San Saba, Allison East (Bobby) of Waco, Ken Witcher of Batilmore, Maryland, and Andy Witcher (Melissa) of Lampasas; sisters Teresa Mathews of Henderson, Nevada, and Cindy Kalinowski of Quapaw, Oklahoma; sister-in-law, Judy Rutty of Flower Mound; and stepsister, Tammy Utley of Oxford, Michigan.
Sherry was known as Mema to 13 grandchildren, Shayna Stewart, Kami Pipes, Colby Mahan, Jesica Witcher, Robert East, Levi Witcher, Austin Witcher, Phelicia Hartwell, Caelan Witcher, Chase Witcher, Brady Witcher, Hunter Witcher and Garrett Witcher; eight greatgrandchildren; and several nieces, nephews, greatnieces and great-nephews.
