| Date of Birth | June 18, 1945 |
| Passed Away | February 12, 2010 |
| Place of Residence | Hornell |
| Home State | NY |
| Service Date | February 17, 2010 |
| Service Time | 10:30 A.M. |
| Service Location | St. Ann's Church, Hornell |
| Interment Location | St. Mary's Cemetery, Town of Fremont |
SHARON DIANE “SHRIN” ARMELI
HORNELL-Sharon Diane “Shrin” Armeli, 64, of 39 Mill St., and a resident of McAuley Manor in North Hornell for the past seven years, passed away late Friday evening (Feb. 12, 2010) in the presence of her loving family, at St. James Mercy Hospital in Hornell, where she had been a patient for the past week.
Born in Yates Center, KS on June 18, 1945, she was a daughter of the late Charles Robert and Edna Schrewer Fulhage. On Oct. 16, 1965 she was married at St. Patrick’s Church in Wichita, KS to Anthony S. “Tony” Armeli, who survives.
A graduate of Yates Center High School, Sharon also graduated from the Wichita Business College and was employed by the E.B. Construction Co. in Wichita, KS. She was also employed as a secretary at Children’s Hospital in Buffalo before she began her employment as a secretary for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in Hornell.
Sharon has resided in Hornell since 1965 and was a very talented seamstress who did alterations for about 25 years for the former Cameo Shop, The Men’s Shop, J. C. Penney’s and for the Hornell Police Department. She also designed and sewed beautiful bridal gowns and bride’s maid dresses for her family and friends. Along with her daughter, Tracy, she operated the Old Barn Works, a consignment shop in Rochester for five years, where they made and sold various crafts.
She will be remembered for being a loving wife, mother, grandmother and sister who loved to talk and visit with her family and friends, especially her wonderful Mill Street neighbors. Besides doing various crafts, Sharon also enjoyed attending craft shows and shopping.
A member of Our Lady of the Valley Parish, she was very devout about attending Saturday evening Mass weekly at St. Ann’s Church.
Her family includes her devoted and loving husband of 44 years, Tony; her three caring and loving children, Tracy (Dan) Hall of Ontario, NY, Shelly Armeli of Hornell and Michael (Amanda) Armeli of Arkport; her four grandchildren that she dearly loved, Matthew Hall, Brooke Armeli, Christopher Hall and Haley Armeli as well as her fifth grandchild expected in March; her sister, Marla (John) Beckom of Girard, KS; her sister-in-law, Jane Fulhage of Columbia, MO; her brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Joseph and Liz Armeli of Wayland; her aunt, Ruth Fulhage of Yates Center, KS and her cousin, Kathy Kruger of Kansas City, MO also her nieces and nephews.
Besides her parents, she was also predeceased by her brother, Charles Duane Fulhage.
Calling hours are from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at the Bishop & Johnson Funeral Home, Inc., 285 Main St., Hornell. Friends are invited to meet her family at St. Ann’s Church where a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Committal prayers and interment will follow at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Town of Fremont.
In lieu of flowers, those wishing may contribute in her memory to Our Lady of the Valley Parish, 27 Erie Ave., Hornell, NY 14843. Envelopes for memorial contributions will be available at the funeral home.
My dear sweet friend of 30 some years. I will miss her beautiful smile. We had some fantastic good times with our garage sales, our excusions up to Buffalo, all the craft shows, our many many Christmases together and all the good times we had with our cook outs and just being real good neighbors and friends. She was a very special person and well loved by everyone. Rest in peace my good friend. I will always love you.
sharon was a very caring, loving, and wonderful human being and will be dearly missed, we would like to say we are very sorry for your loss, you are in our thoughts and prayers and may god keep you close at this time and watch over you.
Dear Toni,Tracy, Shelly and Mike.
Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you.
Aunt Sharon was a very loving mother, sister,daughter,wife,grandmother and aunt. I have wonderful memories of times at the farm during the summers with her, as well as many others. She will be greatly missed by everyone. Our hearts and prayers are with my uncle and cousins who took such wonderful care of her. We love you all.
My family used to live on Mill St. Sharon and her family were very kind to us when others weren’t. Our children played togather for many years.She and Tony rescued my basement form flooding one time when the sewer had backed up with rain. She was a very friendly and kind person.
Sharons son Mike is my best friend. She was a wonderful woman and raised a wonderful family with her husband Tony.I moved to their neighborhood in 1987 at the age of 8 and thats when i met Mike and the Armeli family.When i was young i would ring their doorbell and no one would answer and i always peeked through the window and finally Sharon would answer the door and let me in and i would stand in the living room and wait for mike to usually come down from his room. But there home was like mine many years back and the Armeli Family and Sharon will always be in my heart, thoughts and prayers.
Tony our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family, we are grateful for the help Sharon gave my wife, Iren , with referrals for her sewing business and when she first started back in ’97. That was very kind of her and that helped Iren get off to good start.
God Bless,
Tim & Iren Lloyd
What can I say about my mom…other than she meant the world to me. It’s hard for me to understand why things happened the way they did. Although we weren’t the “richest” family growing up we always had everything we wanted. I always felt so privileged to have the family I had and that my parents loved us and each other so much. They would do anything for us and I always appreciated it&although sometimes I didn’t show it. No matter what kind of trouble I got into my mom was always there for me. I knew I could always count on her being there for me when I needed her. I guess that’s why when she got sick and needed me&I was there for her. There were a lot of ups and downs during the last seven years and at times I thought I would go crazy. It was hard on my dad and I not having much help taking care of her but I did what my mom would have done and in ways it brought my dad and I closer together. My mom was the strongest person I know. She suffered a lot in the last years but always had a smile on her face. And in between making me crazy&she made me laugh&and laugh. She always had stories to tell&some she would have never told before she got sick&but I’m grateful I got to hear them. There will forever be a void in my life. I’m just grateful for the memories that can never be taken away and grateful that I got to be there for her when she needed someone. I will always love you and will never forget you. Thanks for everything you did for me and for making me who I am today.