Sharon Jean Bartlett

Sharon Jean (Smith) Bartlett was embraced by God and taken home to rest and rejoice on September 21, 2024. She was born to Zeffie Profit and Winnie Albright Smith on August 8, 1943, in Malden, Missouri. After graduation from high school, she attended the College of the Ozarks for a year before moving to St. Louis where she married Joel Dean Bartlett, of Egypt, Arkansas, further connecting the bond between the Smith and Bartlett families. Sharon, a lifelong learner, earned a B.A. degree from National-Louis University, a master’s degree in religious education, and a Doctorate in Addiction Studies as well as a Doctorate in Christian Counseling Psychology from the Pillsbury Institute of Applied Christianity. Sharon was always active in her local congregation and joyfully served in multiple roles and ministries. Her carefully planned and sometimes sporadic adventures and antics will be long remembered by countless lives she touched, both young and old. Sharon enjoyed her work at Christian Civic Foundation as bookkeeper and continued her passion there until her retirement as Senior Vice President when it became the Freeway Foundation. Children in hundreds of rural schools across Missouri, fondly referred to her as the “drug lady,” as she and her sidekick “Katie Kangaroo” visited, providing education on topics from “character,” and “acceptance,” as well as “drug abuse prevention.” She loved her annual trip to the capital in Jefferson City, to award children prizes for statewide coloring contests. Sharon is remembered by friends and family as someone who loved people for, and in spite of, their unique life stories. Her home was always a haven for family and friends or those in need of rest and encouragement without judgment. Her generous hospitality, infectious smile and playful, yet wise and consoling wisdom will be missed by all who knew her, but her legacy lives on through people so deeply impacted by her unconditional love. Sharon is survived by her two children, Sandi Boehlein and Mark Bartlett, grandchildren (Aaron, Austin, Evan, Brittany, Tony, ), six great grandchildren, her beloved nieces and nephews whom she loved as her own children, those who called Sharon their “second mom,” the loving staff at Garden View Care Center – O’Fallon, Missouri, who knew her as their “Nana,” and more friends than there are stars in sky. A visitation will take place on Friday, September 27, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. at Valhalla Chapel of Memories, 7500 St. Charles Rock Road, St. Louis, Missouri, 63133. Funeral service will start at 12:00 p.m. Burial will immediately follow at Valhalla Cemetery.

Sharon Jean Bartlett

August 8, 1943 - September 21, 2024