Gwen Anne Sheriff

Gwen Anne Campbell Sheriff, 84, of Clemson passed away peacefully September 23, 2025, after a battle with cancer.

Anne was born on August 28, 1941, at Minden, West Virginia and spent her first six years living in West Virginia coal camps at Minden, Summerlee, and Westerly. At age six the family moved to a home on Page Mountain near Kingston, West Virginia. When Anne was in the ninth grade when her father left the coal mines and joined Grove Construction Company. The latter job compelled the family to move to Westfield, Massachusetts and continued to follow the jobs to New Jersey, Virginia, and Ohio. After graduating from high school in Zanesville, Ohio, Anne went to Indiana Wesleyan University and Southern Wesleyan University in Central South Carolina graduating in 1963 with an A. B. Degree. She received her master’s degree at the University of Georgia in 1970. She has taught at Flat Rock school near Liberty, South Carolina, Warner Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, Six Mile, West End, Liberty, and Forest Acres Elementary in Pickens County, South Carolina.

Anne was a member and has served in many capacities of the South Carolina Education Association, Pickens County Library Board, Pendleton district Genealogical society, Pickens Senior Citizens Board, Pickens County Cultural Arts Commission, Pickens County Republican Party, founder and curator of the Faith Clayton Family Research Center and curator of the Central History Museum. She was a member of the Andrew Pickens chapter of the daughters of the American Revolution. (DAR)

The Sheriff National Guard Memorial Flag Plaza at Southern Wesleyan University is named for Anne and her husband Brigadier General Jimmy D. Sheriff.

She was selected as Pickens County Teacher of the year in 1978, South Carolina History Teacher of the year in 1983, and Monticello-Stratford Hall Summer Seminar fellow in 1986 She received $16, 000 in teacher Incentive grants From the South Caroline Department of education. As part of the grant program, she and her students in the gifted program published books entitled Revolution Soldiers, John Calhoun, Cherokee Villages in South Carolina, Sketches of Cherokee Villages in South Carolina, Black History Volumes I II. She co-authored the following books: One hundred Years, Anderson County Cemetery Survey, Pickens County Cemetery Survey I, II, and III, Oconee County Cemetery I and II.

Anne was preceded in death by her husband, Brigadier General Jimmy Don Sheriff, her parents, William H and Garnett Campbell, brothers Norman Campbell and William Allen Campbell.

She is survived by her sisters Gail Jones of Anderson, South Carolina, Judie Wells (Jim) of Morristown, Tennessee, and John Campbell (Okkyung Susan) of Los Angeles, California, sister-in-law Janet Campbell, Nieces and nephews, Jimmy Campbell, Steven Campbell, Brenda Bostic, Joe Austin, Jennifer Shelton, Christi Greene and great nieces and nephews.

Anne had a passion for learning and teaching, especially history. She loved teaching and challenged her students to enjoy learning and never stop. She will be remembered as a go-getter. Her family and friends will remember her as quick witted and a bit bossy. She was generous with her time and energy to her projects. She was loyal to her friends and family.

A visitation for Anne will be held Saturday, September 27, 2025, from 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM at Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home. 

A Graveside Service will be held following the visitation at 2:30 PM at Mt. Zion Cemetery in Central. 

Dear Sweet, Gwen Anne,

You are loved and precious to us all. You made your mark in this world, and you will not be forgotten. We will miss your little sarcastic smile, your love toward us all. You will be forever in our hearts.

Please visit RobinsonFuneralHomes.com or Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home & Crematory, Central-Clemson Commons.