Word: sherri
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RUTH MOSHER WILL ALWAYS WONDER WHAT LED HER DAUGHTER SHERRI Jewell to David Koresh. The pictures scattered around the house are of Sherri: winning a medal in a marathon; accepting her high school diploma; hugging her mother, whom she considered her best friend. "I thought her childhood was pretty happy," says Mosher, "but maybe it wasn't." Sherri, born 43 years ago in Honolulu, the only child of a salesman and a schoolteacher, was uprooted when her parents separated and her mother moved with her to California. But "I gave her everything -- all the ballet, music, gymnastics, swimming classes...
...Sherri was already drifting into another life. During college she converted to the Seventh-Day Adventist Church; she had been brought up a Methodist. She went to Michigan to teach high school, and married a student seven years her junior, David Jewell, who was also a Seventh-Day Adventist. Mosher did not trust David. The couple had a daughter, Kiri, but the marriage was turbulent. Mosher found that out when Sherri asked her to spend a month with them. "She was so sad," Mosher recalls. "Sherri was always a very up person. She was having such a hard time...
...Sherri and David split up and finally divorced in 1984. Broke and distraught, Sherri took Kiri back to Hawaii. At a Seventh-Day Adventist church there, she was befriended by Marc Breault, a disciple of Vernon Howell's -- the leader later known as David Koresh. When Sherri was back in California and living with her mother, Breault "would call her at all hours of the night and talk for hours," says Mosher. Sherri was introduced to Koresh, who thrilled her with his preaching. "Are you telling me you think this guy is the Lamb of God? You think...
Once she moved to Waco, Sherri withdrew even more. She was impossible to contact, and she sought to end David's regular visits with Kiri. He grew alarmed when Breault, who had broken with Koresh, warned him and Sherri's mother of the abusive practices going on in the cult. Sherri, Breault said, was one of Koresh's favored wives. The gold pendant worn by Kiri, only 10, was a sign that Koresh planned to take her too as a wife...
...same day in 1989 that American Airlines gave flight attendant Sherri Cappello her 25-year pin, they fired her for being 11 lbs. overweight. Last week Cappello, now the vice president of American's flight-attendants union, watched with satisfaction as the airline was forced to lift the limits that had cost her a job. After lawsuits by the union and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, American agreed to revise its standards. Under the settlement, the company's 1959 weight requirements will be relaxed, and employees will be able to weigh more as they age. Violators will be required...