Jean Katherine Sherier
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Published: November 18 Washington Post

       Jean K. Sherier, 88, a retired publications director at the American
Physical Therapy Association, died Nov. 6 at the Iliff Nursing Home in
Dunn Loring, where she had lived for the last seven years. She had heart
ailments, said her niece, Anne M. Rutherford.

Jean Katherine Sherier was a lifelong resident of Washington’s Georgetown
neighborhood and a descendant of Conrad Sherier, an original settler of the
Palisades in Northwest Washington.

      Ms. Sherier graduated from the old Western High School. She
worked in the publishing arena throughout her career in jobs that included
layout, advertizing, distribution, writing and editing.

      Her employers included Mechanization Inc., a firm that published trade
journals for the coal industry, the National Concrete Masonry Association
and the American Council on Education.

      She retired from the American Physical Therapy Association in the late
1980s.

      She had no immediate survivors.


— Bart Barnes