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LOCAL LEGENDS

Sharing Her Gift (and Her Dogs)

Sherell Guichard-Thomas

by Shirley Green

“ very dog has its day.” That is Since then,
Sherell Guichard-Thomas’s Sherell fills her
Efavorite quote, and it is time with arts and
said to mean that everyone will crafts, shopping,
be successful at some time in their and showing and
life. Sherell has proven that maxim training dogs,
repeatedly in her life as well as in the especially her own
lives of her beloved canine friends. dogs. She has been
very active in the
A native of Post, Sherell came by her Heart of the Plains
talents naturally. Her father, Dennis Kennel Club for
Guichard, was a jazz bass player 45 years and a 45-
from New Orleans who once toured year member of
with the Mills Brothers. Her mother, the South Plains
Robbie, was a professional hairdresser. Obedience Training
Sherell graduated from Texas Tech Club of Lubbock as
University, earning a BS and an MS well as Delta Sigma
in Microbiology. Her professional Theta, Inc. sorority.
career was as a Professional Registered In addition, she is a
Sanitarian and Generalist Surveyor valuable member of
for the city of Lubbock and the state the Lubbock Roots
of Texas. (Ed. note: Sanitarians protect Historical Arts
the health, safety and general welfare of Council.
the public. Their inspections are key to
preventing foodborne and communicable Sherell’s love
disease outbreaks.) She retired in 2024 for training and
after 34 years of state service. showing dogs

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