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Laura Sherwood (Vandagriff)

December 17, 1963 - March 23, 2011

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 30, at Sweet Home Church of the Nazarene. Final burial will be atLewis Cemetery.

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Laura Sherwood, 47, of Sweet Home passed away Wednesday. She was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Otis Doyle and Alvaree (Hart) Vandagriff.

She grew up in Mountain Home, Idaho and graduated from Mountain Home High School in 1982. She attended Northwest Nazarene University where she met her husband, Rick. Laura and Rick married in 1983. After 1994 they lived in Minnesota and Montana. They settled in Oregon in 1997, eventually moving to Sweet Home in 2001.

Laura was a member and Sunday School teacher for the Sweet Home Church of the Nazarene. She was a contributing member and vice president of Fair Share Gleaners.

She enjoyed gardening, knitting, and art. Most of all, she loved her family. She touched the lives of everyone she met in a positive way.

Laura is survived by: her husband, Rick; children, Van, Aurora, and Brom; brother, Steve; sisters, Vivian, Diane, and Joan; and many nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 30, at Sweet Home Church of the Nazarene. Final burial will be atLewis Cemetery.

Arrangements are under the direction of Sweet Home Funeral Chapel.