Trunk, Sheila Rose of Brookline, Massachusetts and St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands passed away on Tuesday, February, 2, 2016 at her Brookline home with her family by her side. Sheila, a graduate of the Boston University School of Fine Arts, was a talented painter, an inspiring teacher and mentor to other teachers, a world traveler, a tenacious advocate for all her students especially the hard to reach, an accomplished horseback rider but most of all she was a loving and caring wife and mother. Her family was the most important part of her life. Her teaching career began in the Virgin Islands where she influenced aspiring artists and fellow educators on the high school and college level. She also developed many programs for adolescents who were then struggling with the pressures of their age group through Arts and Life Arts Programs. Upon retirement from the islands, Sheila began another teaching career in the Newton School System at the Oak Hill Middle School. Again, she assumed the role of advocate and pursued brave programs to assist the students that were the most in need of support. Sheila has friends all over the world and she lives on through all of the people that she mentored and advocated for. Her immediate survivors include her husband Joe and her two sons, Holden, a Master's Degree Candidate at Lesley University and a teacher's assistant at Oak Hill Middle School and Ryan, a Captain in the United States Marine Corps. She is also survived by her brother Howard of Malverne, New York. Flowers are being accepted, however a scholarship fund is being established in her name and the family will accept donations at a later time. Funeral from the Bell-O'Dea Funeral Home, 376 Washington St., BROOKLINE, on Saturday morning at 10:00 followed by a Graveside Committal Service in the Walnut Hills Cemetery, 96 Grove St., Chestnut Hill at 11:00. Relatives and friends are kindly invited. Visiting hours in the funeral home on Friday afternoon from 3:00 8:00.