Sharon Gail Catron Hunter a proud mom of three was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 21, 1943 at Mount Sinai Hospital to Marjorie Constance Catron-Powell and Vernon Rudolph Catron.

After the birth of her sister Marlene Fraser Catron-McLaurin her family moved to Boston Massachusetts in 1945. Later twin brothers Vernon Rudolph Catron and Ronald Oswald Catronwere born.

She started her formal education in the Boston public school system graduating from Jeremiah E. Burke high school in 1961. She studied and earned her A S Early Childhood Ed at Middlesex Community College. Bedford, Ma. class of 1975. Studied and earned her M. Ed. at Antioch M. A.

She worked for Boston public schools. She worked for foster care services at the State of Maryland. She officially retired in 2011. She continued to do substitute teaching and volunteer work with the state of Maryland until 2016.

Sharon was a passionate loving mother. Dedicated to her family and her community. A community activist.

A product of socially conscious academics and educators. Dedicated to developing and educating children and youth and being productive self-sufficient and independent members of society by empowering and educating. From being one of the founders of the nonprofit Head Start program in Boston Mass in the 1960s.

Cofounder of The Non Profit program, "Our Place to Grow" daycare center Roxbury, Ma. in the 1970s to developing and directing group homes and social development programs for pre-teens, teenagers and young adults in New Orleans Louisiana in the 1980s.

Then the C.R.I.B.S. Program in Baltimore Maryland. C.R.I.B.S. Stands for Crisis, Respite, Intervention, Baby, Shelter. This program was created due to the overwhelming amount of babies that were being placed in trash cans and abandoned because the young mothers were either afraid to tell their parents they were pregnant, or they were on drugs, or homeless. They housed the children they could save at a housing location created at the YWCA in Baltimore, MD in the 1990s.

She later went on to save more children and families as the Director of child protective services in Baltimore, MD. She was a community and civil rights pioneer helping families and providing resources until she retired in 2016.

She is survived by one sister and two brothers, Marlene, Vernon and Ronald. Three loving children Laura, Aldrich, and Christopher. She had six grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. She also had many nieces and nephews and a host of friends and extended family who will miss her tremendously.