Help the Capobianco Family with Medical Expenses

The staff at Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center are raising funds for the Capobianco family to offset some of the medical expenses they've incurred due to the extensive hospitalization of beloved wife, daughter, mother, and grandmother, Sherry Capobianco.

 

Sherry came down with COVID-19 in August 2021 and was hospitalized at Southern Coos Hospital, then transferred to Riverbend in Eugene. She was in the ICU for several weeks and ventilated for much of that time. She finally succumbed to COVID-related illness on September 20.

 

Capobianco joined the staff at SCHHC in June 2019 as Lead Dietary Cook. During her time in the hospital’s dietary department, she progressed to Dietary Supervisor in March 2020, then Dietary manager in September 2020.

 

During her time at SCHHC, Sherry managed her team well despite being short-staffed, having equipment breakdowns and dealing with the ongoing pandemic. She continually went above and beyond to ensure her dietary staff had the necessary training, resources, and tools to get daily tasks completed. Sherry kept up the spirits of her team by working extra hours in order to avoid staff burnout. “Sherry understood the importance of positivity, which shined through every day,” one of her colleagues stated.

 

Capobianco grew up in Redding, Calif., and before moving to Bandon, lived in Sacramento, Calif., where she worked as a registered dental assistant for 11 years.

 

She and her family spent many vacations as pit crew for her father, Darrell Riddle, on the drag racing circuit up and down the northern California and Southern Oregon coast, where he races a 1948 Ford Anglia that he customized. 

Sherry's father, Darrell has also been lost to COVID. The impact of COVID has been devastating on the family. 

 

Sherry also drag-raced and along with husband Robert was an avid Harley Davidson rider, spending a lot of their spare time out on their motorcycles. “I’ve been up to 250 mph in a race car and 150 mph on a motorcycle. Those are my top speeds,” she once said.

 

Several years ago, her parents moved to Myrtle Point and she and her family soon followed, moving to Bandon after Robert got a job in engineering at SCHHC, where he continues to work.

 

When they arrived, Sherry got a job in the dietary department at Pacific View Assisted Living in Bandon. She worked there for five years before being hired at SCHHC.

 

Capobianco loved working for SCHHC. Upon her selection as April 2021's SCHHC Employee of the Month, Sherry stated: “I think the people who work throughout the hospital are amazing,” she said. “It’s awesome that they do so much for the community as well. I think that’s super important.”

 

Sherry's brother and sister live in Redding and she has one son in Redding along with a granddaughter, 6, and grandson, 4. Robert continues to live in Bandon.