In addition to our regular gang of box seat security volunteers who return year after year, Sharon Stewart returned each year too, in her black jeans, smiling and laughing and showing the newbies the ropes.
She had a quick smile and always a friendly word. And she worked hard in the hot sun to make a few bucks to maybe put enough of them together to take a trip to see her sons.
“She couldn’t wait to work those five days for the air races,” said Jose Luis Cacheux-Ojeda, who goes by Joe. He and Sharon had been together for 35 years and have lived in the Reno area since 1994.
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Charlene Summers, of Sparks, said Stewart was her best friend.
“She always laughed. She liked to do things to have fun. She was very outgoing,” she said.
Summers said Stewart would usually lay out her clothes the day before the air races began and would get to work an hour early.
“She just loved it. She was where she wanted to be.”
Maura Cox, Stewart’s next-door neighbor, said she was all smiles when she finished work Thursday and she waived to her Friday morning before going to work.
I will miss her very much.
Oh, I am so sorry for your loss, it is such a difficult thing to work through…