Ms. Sharon R. Slaughter

March 9, 1955 - March 27, 2021

Sharon Renee Slaughter was born into this life on March 9, 1955, to the union of Harold and Virginia Slaughter. She was baptized, as many Milwaukee black Catholic children were, by Fr. Matthew Gottschalk and educated early through parochial school system of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. In 1973, she followed in her older sister, Andrea's, footsteps graduating from West Division High. After high school, she took her culinary skills she learned from her mother and went to cook for the priest of Notre Dame in Whitefish Bay, WI. She then moved on to Silver Spring Neighborhood Center working with the babies, that is where her love for shaping and forming young minds first began. From there, she went on to work at VE Carters. In between finding her true passion of teaching young children, she found the love of her life with the help of her little sister. Tommie Lee Bishop entered her life and with that came her greatest two joys or rather three, Thomas, Terrance, and the one most of ail, KINGSTON, her grandson. Sharon earned her associates and bachelor's degree to continue her mission in early childhood education to shape the minds of young people. From a request to have a Covid test, she was given a diagnosis that was a surprise to her, something that was hard as she tried, she could not fight; and she had to surrender to on March 27, 2021 . Sharon was preceded in death by her parents, Harold T. Slaughter and Virginia Slaughter; brothers, Horace Slaughter and Harold Slaughter Jr.: and sister, Gail Slaughter. She leaves to mourn her passing: sons, Thomas (Katrina) and Terrance (Pamela) Bishop of Milwaukee, WI; grandson, Kingston Bishop of Milwaukee, WI; sisters, Andrea Slaughter of Milwaukee, WI, Jacqueline (Thomas) Simmons of Conyers, GA, and Karen Slaughter of Stone Mountain, GA; her life partner, Tommie Lee Bishop of Milwaukee, WI; and a host of nephews, nieces, cousins, family, and friends.