Sherrill, III, Thomas Boykin
1930 - 2021
Sherrill, III, age 90, completed his life’s journey on September 1, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio.
Tom was born on November 19, 1930, in Tampa, Florida,
the only child of Mary (Addison) and Thomas Boykin
Sherrill, Jr. Tom began selling Liberty magazines in Tampa, at nine years old.
Two years later, he became a newspaper carrier for the
Tampa Daily Times. He was named the Times’ carrier of the year in 1944 and named district manager in 1949. Tom graduated in 1949 from Plant High
School in Tampa. He served in the United States Navy from 1951 to 1956. Tom joined the Tampa Tribune in 1956, and was circulation director for both the Tribune and Daily Times by 1962.
He became the circulation director of the Sarasota
Herald-tribune and the
Sarasota Journal in 1967.
Tom married Sandra Evans in Birmingham, Alabama on December 27, 1969. In
August 1975, he joined The
Columbus Dispatch as circulation director, was elected to the board of directors in 1977, and became vice president in 1978. Tom retired from The Dispatch at the end of 1996. He is a past president of the Southern
Circulation Managers
Association, the International
Circulation Managers
Association, and the Ohio
Newspaper Association, and is recipient of the top achievement award of each of these organizations. Tom was also elected to five twoyear terms on the board of directors of the Audit
Bureau of Circulations. He was chairman of the advisory board of the Salvation
Army, a trustee and past chairman of the Better
Business Bureau of Central
Ohio, and a member of the executive board of the Simon
Kenton Council of The
Boy Scouts of America. Tom served as president of the
Kiwanis clubs of Tampa,
Sarasota, and Columbus, and had 56 years of perfect attendance. He was a member for 45 years and chairman of the administrative board of Northwest
United Methodist Church, member of the president’s advisory council of the
Methodist Theological
School, and past president of Wesley Glen retirement center. Tom is preceded in death by his parents Mary
Addison Hanley and T.B.
Sherrill, Jr. He is survived by his wife, Sandra Evans
Sherrill; sons and daughters-in-law, Thomas G. and Heather Sherrill and
Stephen A. and Katie Sherrill;
grandchildren, Evan,
Christian, and Lily Sherrill; and stepsister, Sally Rowlinson.
Family will receive friends on Thursday,
September 9, from 5-7pm, at SCHOEDINGER NORTHWEST,
1740 Zollinger Road,
Upper Arlington, Ohio.
Celebration of life will be on Friday, September 10, at 10:30am, in the outdoor chapel of Northwest United
Methodist Church, 5200
Riverside Drive, Upper Arlington,
Ohio, with visitation one hour preceding the service. Interment at a later date in Tampa. Memorial gifts may be made to The
Salvation Army in Central
Ohio, 966 East Main Street,
Columbus, Ohio 43205 or
Kiwanis Club of Columbus,
P.O. Box 20334, Columbus,
Ohio 43220. To share memories or condolences, please visit www.schoedinger.com.