Cheryl Ann Card's life was a colorful one. To sum it up, it was a life filled with the beauty of flowers and love for her children. Her passion for flowers and gardening was a driving force that became her lifelong career. She learned her flower trade at an early age from her father, Paul Engh, and grandparents, Della and Henry Engh. She spent many years helping her brothers build their garden centers and went on to build her own flower store, Cheryl Engh Gardens.
Her garden center slogan was, "A Most Unique Garden Center." Her favorite motto," if it isn't selling, spray it gold and it will sell!" and "what's one man's junk is another man's treasure." Her favorite words to live by, "where there's a will there's a way."
She was a gifted designer and loved all seasons and holidays but Halloween was her favorite. Going to Cheryl's store at the onset of harvest and Halloween would make anyone fall in love with it. Her gardens would transform into a fall extravaganza. She adorned her garden center in designer scarecrows, hand painted and carved pumpkins and the most elaborate Halloween decorations and costumes imaginable. It was more than a pumpkin patch; it was a shopping experience.
In her younger years, she loved all creatures but especially rabbits. She enjoyed raising prize winning, New Zealand Red, show rabbits that earned high marks in the county and state fairs for several years. She even had a pet cow named Penny!
When her children were young, she moved to California but missed the close proximity of her extended family and returned to Utah. She valued her family vacations and rarely missed the annual family reunion. One of the annual highlights of her year, and an Engh family tradition, was traveling to the Engh Family Homestead in Metropolis, Nevada.
Cheryl was adored by many. She had the gift of gab and the biggest of hearts with a kind and positive comment for everyone she met. She had the knack of turning junk into gold. She loved her family and raised four beautiful children for whom she was very proud. She was a so excited to be a grandmother of identical twins just a year ago. We have lost our dear Cheryl at a young age of 54. She will be missed but she joins her father, Paul Henry Engh, paternal grandparents, Henry and Della Engh and maternal grandparents, Rodney and Eileen Olson in the heavens where they can all talk gardening while critiquing the rest of the families' gardens. We know they will have much to talk about.
Cheryl Ann Card was born October 5, 1961 and died July 26, 2016. She married David Card, later divorced. She is survived by her four children: Stacy Card (Ty), Candace Card Williams (Kurt), Thomas Card and Monique Card; two grandchildren David Sawyer Jessop and Prinston Kai Jessop; her mother Patricia Ann Ashby; four sisters: Eileen Engh, Karen Engh, Christine Fornelius (Brett), Linda Engh-Grady (Dave), three brothers: Eric Engh, Scott Engh (Tanya), and John Engh (Kellie), and her partner and friend George Miles, as well as many aunts, uncles, and cousins that dearly loved her.
A funeral service will be held on Monday, August 1, 2016 at 11:00 am at Larkin Sunset Gardens, 1950 E. Dimple Dell Rd (10600 S.) in Sandy. A visitation will be on Sunday, July 31, 2016 from 6:00 ‚ 8:00 pm at Larkin Sunset Gardens and on Monday from 10:00 - 10:45am prior to the service. Burial will follow in Larkin Sunset Gardens Cemetery where Cheryl will be buried next to her father and a celebration of her life will commence in the Le Jardin Atrium on the Larkin grounds directly across the parking lot from the mortuary from 1:00 ‚ 3:00 pm where a lite lunch will be served.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to be made in her memory at Red Butte Gardens. Cheryl and her caring persona and willingness to help others, chose to be an organ donor; so that through her death, others may live.
