Sherise Noel Bieber
July 12, 1972 - March 24, 2006
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Sherise Noel Bieber
July 12, 1972 - March 24, 2006
Obituary
Sherise Noel Bieber 33 of Murrieta, Riverside, CA.
A brilliant professor of literature, beloved wife, loving mother and devoted daughter, died on Friday, March 24, 2006 in an auto accident. She is survived by her devoted husband Brandon Bieber; loving children Megan and Matthew Snodgrass; beloved mother Judy Wiley; beloved father Roger Jolicoeur; sister Nicole Miller, brother Ryan Jolicoeur; grandparents Joan Jolicoeur, Rosemary and John Wirries.
Visitation will be held on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 ~ 3-6 P.M. at O’Connor Laguna Hills Mortuary, Laguna Hills, CA.
A Funeral Mass will be held on Thursday, March 30, 2006 ~ 10:30 A.M. at St. Kilian Catholic Church, Mission Viejo, CA. Interment immediately following at Ascension Cemetery, Lake Forest, CA.
In lieu of flowers, family requests donations to Sherise Bieber Memorial Fund for benefit of Megan and Matthew.
118 responses to Sherise Noel Bieber
Michael Slusser says:
December 6, 2006
Writing this at the moment seems totally surreal. I had lost contact with Sherise for nearly a year, and wrote an e-mail today to try to catch up with her, maybe schedule a time to get together for lunch. It was only when my e-mail bounced back that I checked further and found the article about the accident in March.
Sherise and I were students together in the graduate MFA program at Eastern Washington University for two years. During that time, she became perhaps the closest, and certainly the dearest, friend I had. We spent hours in the library together working on class projects. We were both teaching assistants and her office was across the hall from mine–I looked forward every day to having tea with her and alternately bemoaning the quality of student work and being shown by her how to be a better, more dedicated instructor. She put me on a writing regimen because she believed in my work, and she critiqued my short stories with insight and love. I was, I think, the first person she told at least at the school when she became pregnant with Megan.
She moved away at the end of our second year and I was the one who delivered her final papers to her instructors. I was sad that she was leaving–and then delighted to find that, when I returned home to the San Bernardino mountains, she would not be far away. Sherise set up job interviews for me with the schools she taught at, and it was through her that I became an adjunct professor; through her encouragement and a wonderfully hyperbolic recommendation letter that I got a full-time position. I was overjoyed to return the favor and write her a glowing and completely true recommendation for her application to MSJC. We met and chatted when we could in the past six years, and always she had something new to show me about how to be a better instructor and a better person.
This is a long list of seemingly random moments, but I am still overwhelmed and dumbfounded by this news. The shock that came for her family and friends nine months ago is just hitting me now. I cannot imagine the torments and pain you have gone through, and you have my deepest empathy and most heartfelt prayers. I hardly know what to do but weep; praise God she knew Him, and may He be your comfort now and always, for I am certain nothing can fill the hole she will leave in all our lives.
The last time I spoke to Sherise, she reiterated how much she loved Brandon and Megan and Matthew, how happy she had become in her life, and that brought a lightness to my heart. I had known her in bad times and I was encouraged to see her rise from them, as she always did, with grace and strength and beauty. It is a tragedy for us to have that taken from our lives, but she is in glory now, and she leaves a legacy of devotion, of love, and of joy with us that we cannot let die, for her sake.
Forgive me the long entry. I do not know what else to do.
Rebecca Reuter Johnson says:
January 10, 2007
Brandon,
I am sitting here at a loss for words as my family and I just found out about this tragic loss from you parent’s Christmas card. Please know my family and I are thinking of you, your family and Sherise’s. May God be with you always and Sherise forever live within your heart.
Rebecca Reuter Johnson
Megan says:
August 8, 2007
I miss you more than words can say… Please know that I am here for all you’re family… I love you always and forever…
nicole says:
March 23, 2008
ms. snodgrass
not a day goes by that i dont think about you.
you were probably the only teacher i had that truly cared.
you will always have a place in my heart
just wanted to tell you that
and that i miss you everyday
nicole nicholas
Jenna says:
July 6, 2008
I look at the picture of Crystabel, Megan, you and me everyday. The memories of the wonderful time we had in your classroom are still so real. Our class is still close despite the different lives that we lead and the diverse group of people that we are because of you. Because of you we will never forget each other and we will always share a bond because of the experience that we all had in your classroom. I still remember the emotional debates, the never ending essay assignments, how mad you were when we did not read what you had assigned, and the points/key words that you wrote on the board that by the end of the class had arrows and circles chaotically placed all over them. You were and are my mentor and my goal to become a teacher is very much driven by the strength and passion that you passed on to me. I will never forget you, and know that when I finally get my first classroom that picture of us will be the first thing that I put on my walls. Thank you for your determination and your eagerness to make us look at the world in a different light. I am eternally grateful.
I pray for your family everyday. I hope that you are protecting them and that they are living everyday with the strength that you would want them to have.
Love Always,
Jenna Van Dun