Sheila Carol Matthews of Durant, Okla., passed from this life on Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at the age of 57. She was born on Friday, April 5, 1963 in Willard, Ohio, to Roger Dale and Jeanene Elaine (Trembley) Howard.
Sheila was baptized on September 28, 1975 by Reverend Randy Best at the United Church in North Fairfield, Ohio, the same church where she married her loving husband Charles Allen Matthews on August 4, 1990.
Sheila loved traveling, especially to tropical destinations where she would take any opportunity to snorkel. She loved her family and friends and sought out any opportunity to buy presents for them. She loved taking annual trips to the zoo or aquarium. She loved watching tennis and hockey. 
Sheila was a 1981 graduate of South Central High School in Greenwich, Ohio. She went on to obtain her Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Psychology from Mount Vernon Nazarene. Sheila attended graduate school in Mathematics at Oklahoma State before working as an actuary, a software quality engineer, and then a fitness instructor where she would do a thousand crunches and a hundred men’s pushups every day. Then she became a stay-at-home mom to raise her pride and joy, her daughter Kelsey.
Sheila was preceded in death by her father, Roger Dale Howard; great-nephew, Everett Dale Allen; grandparents Clyde and Gladie Howard and Carl and Orlena Trembley.
Survivors include her husband, Charles Allen Matthews of Durant, Okla.; daughter, Kelsey Sierra Matthews of Stillwater, Okla.; mother, Jeanene Elaine Howard of North Fairfield, Ohio; sisters: Marsha Back (wife of Sam Back) of North Fairfield, Ohio, Tracy Allen (wife of Stoney Allen) of Salyersville, Ky.; nephews: Dustin, Brandon, Steven, Houston, and Stetson Allen; niece, Jennifer Chambers and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, and other extended family.
A memorial service and burial in North Fairfield Cemetery, Ohio will be held at a later date.
Arrangements are under the direction of Gordon Funeral Home, 221 N. Third Ave. in Durant.
Phone: (580) 916-9090
www.gordonfh.com
