JACQUIE LEHATTO | KansasCity.com

Who: Sherry Lynn Drummond, 52, of Leawood.

How and when she died: Drummond died of a head injury after a fall March 29. For more than 10 years, she had reflex sympathetic dystrophy, a debilitating neurological disorder.

A poet, singer and musician: As a very young single mom, Drummond supported her family by modeling and singing in nightclubs. "Sherry could pick up the guitar ... and play anything by ear," said her friend, Carol Webb. Drummond also wrote poetry, and turned many of her poems into songs.

Lucky day: While in Kansas City for her sister's wedding, Drummond, who was 25 at the time, was asked to fill in at a club when the scheduled singer couldn't make it. Her future husband, Steven Drummond, was in the audience. "I just happened to be there that night. I took one look at her and I was smitten," he said.

After a 20-year relationship Steve and Sherry married, and would have celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary this year.

Glamorous but humble: "She was the most down-to-earth person you could find," Drummond said. "She could walk in anywhere and be the most attractive person in the place, but she didn't want to be known for that. The most important things to her were her children."

A really young grandma: Drummond became a grandmother at 36 when her daughter, Angela, gave birth to Dillon, now a teenager. Dillon and his mother lived with the Drummonds until he was 6. "Dillon was the light of her life, and so were Keenan and Julia when they came later," Carol Webb said. She lived next to the Drummonds in Prairie Village and had children about the same age as Dillon. "We lived in a 'Leave It to Beaver'-type neighborhood, and the kids would run back and forth between houses. She would play the guitar and always had kids sitting in a circle around her, listening."

From the heart: Drummond was known for reaching out to those in need, often providing a place to stay for people down on their luck. Even after her nerve disease became really painful, she would lend a hand. "Whenever she felt needed, she would rise to the occasion," Webb said.

Survivors: Her husband, her son and daughter, her mother and stepfather, a son-in-law, two sisters, two brothers and three grandchildren.

Last words: Drummond's obituary ended with: "Same moon. Same stars." "That is what she would tell her children, especially if she had to be away from them, that she would be under the same moon, the same stars," Steven Drummond said. "Those words summed up a lot of things for her. She always put her children first."