Cheryl Elaine (Lloyd) Jensen

On Wednesday, June 29, 2022, Cheryl Elaine Jensen, loving wife and mother of three children, passed away at the young age of 67.

Cheryl was born on June 10, 1955 in Fort Wayne, IN to Samuel and Thelma (Baker) Lloyd. In 1962, Cheryl moved with her family to Traverse City, MI and worked in her family’s business machine store. Cheryl was very active in school and was very proud of her accomplishments in the Traverse City High School Pom-Pom squad and the Marching Band. After graduating from high school, Cheryl moved to San Diego, CA where she gave birth to her first daughter. She travelled to Houston, TX and St. Petersburg, FL prior to returning to Michigan. On June 13, 1986 Cheryl married Erick Glenn Jensen. They raised three daughters Candace, Dayna and Sadie.

Cheryl loved to wake up in the morning, with a fresh cup of coffee, and watch the wildlife move about her beautiful woods. She enjoyed seeing the doe with her fawns as they ate and played. She witnessed for the first time in her life the live birth of a fawn earlier this spring. She loved watching her wildlife friends. Cheryl enjoyed music, singing and artistic drawing. She also enjoyed viewing television and movies as well as having fun playing computer games. Cheryl took pride in creating delicious dinners for the family; she became quite the “Chef”. She would always create “experimental” dinners that were always better than she expected. She enjoyed spending time with Erick in the evening’s binge watching streaming television series as well as watching the occasional movie. Cheryl (Oma) loved her grandchildren with all of her heart and always enjoyed seeing them when they would visit. Cheryl was a generous and caring person who selflessly always put others first, wanting to ensure that everyone was taken care of and had what they needed.

Cheryl is survived by her husband Erick, her 3 children, Candace (Beeke), Dayna (Rybarski) and Sadie, her father and mother Samuel and Thelma (Baker) Lloyd, her sisters Teresa (Korson) and Gail Lloyd, her brother-in-law Mike  Korson, her two son-in-law’s, Robert Rybarski and Ben Beeke as well as her 7 grandchildren Weston, Alaina, Liam, Annabelle, Lily, Jack and Harper.