Sharelle Roseanne Mayer, of Menlo Park/ Atherton, died peacefully at Stanford Hospital on February 2, 2025, several days after her 82nd birthday following a brief illness. Sharelle was a devoted and lifelong Peninsula resident and loved all things involving Bay Area sports. Her insatiable curiosity , intelligence and sense of humor combined with her vast knowledge of current events , sports, movies, and plays made her a welcome guest and curator for social events at Silver Oaks where she resided for a number of years until her passing.
After graduating from Crystal Springs High School, Sharelle attended Dominican University where she received her bachelor’s degree in addition to taking classes at the University of New Mexico and briefly attending Stanford nursing school. After graduation she worked at Stanford Hospital as a nurses’ aid , then onto more social positions at Stanford’s Tressider Student Union , the Faculty Club and Alumni Center and then for her father Herbert Mayer’s engineering firm with a final stint at Infosci Inc. before embarking on more artistic pursuits in which she developed quite a talent for painting and photography as well as publishing her fantastic limited edition book, “Garlands and Laurels” in 1980 .
Sharelle’s love of movies resulted in her being an amateur movie critic of sorts and she amassed an extraordinary collection of dvd’s that she generously shared with the residents of Silver Oaks, family, friends and the Menlo Park library. Sharelle watched every sports event from college to professional teams with the Stanford Indians (until 1971), then Cardinals ( until 1981) and now Cardinal being her favorite. She attended many of the annual Big Game rivalries between Cal and Stanford and loved the Menlo Country Club as well where her father played golf and she played tennis .
Sharelle lived at the Silver Oaks in Menlo Park for a number of years and was a regular attendee of local movies and plays until her unexpected passing due to a series of health complications.
She will be remembered for her delightful humor, philanthropy and her devotion to her sports teams, family and friends.
Sharelle was the only child of Herbert and Shari Mayer and is survived by her cousins Leslie , Scott and Kevin Mayer in Los Angeles , Geoffrey Mayer in Arroyo Grande, and Jan Gaffney in Long Beach, California and John Mayer in Ogden, Utah .
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