Sareta Cheryl Gardner

Sareta Cheryl Gardner was born on May 26, 1966 in Washington, District of Columbia. She quietly departed this life on Friday, February 6, 2021 at 6:05 am. Cheryl was reared in a God-fearing home and at the tender age of 12 years old, she was baptized in Jesus Name and received the gift of the “Holy Ghost!” She loved to worship, sing in the choir and along with her sisters and relatives. She was a long time member of the Greater Morning Star Pentecostal Church under the late Bishop Ramsey N. Butler and then under his successor, Bishop Charles E. Johnson for a time until she was led to leave. In September 2001, she joined, Agape Assembly Ministries pastored by her brother-in-law Bishop H. Evan Smith , Sr and sister First Lady Regina Smith until she became ill and was admitted to long term care and facility at Cadia HealthCare, Hyattsville, Maryland in 2004 until her death. Cheryl was educated in the District of Columbia Public School System and she graduated from Ballou Senior High School, Class of 1985. She was very active and known to be a busy person. She loved fashions and she was very articulate, very talkative and had a way of expressing herself. She loved to have fun and she would laugh, joke and play around with everyone she met. She was always the life of the party or gathering. When she made her entrance into the room, she would take front and center stage to make people laugh, cry and have a good time. She was also known to be a giving person and the “Boss/Mother” of all those she loved and cared about. Cheryl was employed with DC Department of Corrections facility, Lorton, Virginia as a Minimum Security Officer. She was a loyal employee there for many years until that specific complex/establishment was closed. Cheryl loved the Lord since her youth and to the best of her ability and understanding. Whenever we would visit her, we often sung songs and read the bible to her. She would respond by raising her right hand, moving her head, and then release sounds of joy as she expressed herself and giving God Praise!! After a very extensive time suffering the lost of speech, ability to walk, and being diagnosed with “Cancer” among other things in mid 2018. Cheryl’s cognitive ability remained strong and she was very receptive of her surroundings and she responded to all those assigned to look after her which included nurses and family members who came to visit her. Sareta Cheryl Gardner was preceded in death by her father the late Douglas William Gardner, her mother the late Mother Margaret D.Taylor, her step father, the late Franklin B. Taylor, her sister the late Yvette J. Gardner. She leaves to mourn her step mother, Diane Gardner, her sisters, Charlene Cunningham Spencer, Juanita (Susie) Gardner, Pastor Regina Smith, Dyanna Gardner, Keisha Harris, Danielle Gardner. And her brothers, David Clarke, William Gardner, David Gardner and her brother-in-law, Bishop H. Evan Smith and a host of nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins and other relatives and dear friends.

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Sareta Cheryl Gardner

May 26, 1966 - February 6, 2021