Jeri Cody Potter

April 18, 1947 - August 2, 2024

Jeri, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, died at age 77. Her spirit complete in finding her final destination. In a life of experiences, chapters, travels, adventures and family we celebrate her life.

Growing up in the gilded age of Southern California where cruising the strip, surfing, and looking for the next adventure became a part of her life and soul. Traveling and living all around the world, from California, to Okinawa, Texas, the Midwest, and Arizona.

Finding roots to raise her family in Grand Rapids, she made a career of helping people. For more than a decade she worked with the hard-working men and women of Steelcase in their counseling department. Between a busy life of work, school events, and sports, Jeri always found time to go cruising, just now on ships opposed to hot rods, on her beloved annual sisters' trip with her twin, Sheri. She loved being on the water.

The one thing she loved the most was her family and her cats. She is survived by her children Brynn Sexton of Ada, David Chase of Charlotte, North Carolina, and her grandchildren, Madison and Matthew Exton, Erin and Shawn Hager and their children. Jeri was preceded in passing by her loving husband Joel Potter, twin sister Sheri (SPHS '65) and parents Jack and MaryLou Cody.

Oldfield Funeral Home, August 2024

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Jeri's life was filled with wonderful family members, travels and adventures. She enjoyed all of that while living in such places as California, Texas, the Midwest, Arizona, and Okinawa, Japan. She was blessed with a twin sister, Sheri '65, who preceded her in passing. While it has been nearly 60 years since we went to school together, who could ever forget that these two sisters were probably the only South Pasadena twins who had shared use of one of the first Mustangs to be manufactured! A little-known fact about Jeri was that she was a master at reconnecting that Mustang's mileage speedometer after we had disconnected it earlier in the evening so we could cruise Sunset Boulevard on Saturday nights, while our parents thought we went to the Rialto Theatre to see a movie.

Eve Alexander Young '65