Cheryl Fisher Driggs was raised in a military family and has lived around the world (surviving several typhoons). Her university education is in Food Science and Nutrition from Brigham Young University. She has taught home storage, cooking, and emergency preparedness classes since 1977 and has regularly used her personal home storage since 1974. In addition to teaching, she has organized fairs, conferences, socials, and workshops that focus on home storage and preparedness. Cheryl has also worked in the cannery and storehouse system of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, helping to supervise both dry and wet pack canning and peanut butter canning. Having held various leadership positions in Church, she served as a ward Relief Society president for nearly 4 years and in the Stake Relief Society presidency for the same amount of time. She has been the Houston Metro Preparedness Specialist working with the preparedness community of Harris County and the City of Houston in Texas. In that position, she taught food storage and preparedness classes throughout the Houston Metro area and supported the Church’s peanut butter cannery and Home Storage Center with food storage instructional materials.
Cheryl’s experience in community preparedness includes member and chair of the Houston Northwest Chamber of Commerce Emergency Preparedness Task Force; representing the Task Force as a preparedness speaker throughout the Houston metro area and at the 2002 Neighborhoods USA convention; speaker at the Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston 2006 Interfaith Disaster Preparedness Conference; member of the Extreme Weather Ready Expo (formerly the Houston/Galveston Hurricane Workshop) steering committee for over 4 years; representative at Texas Gulf Coast Regional VOAD meetings; and vendor participant in the Harris County CERT Rodeo.
She and her husband, Allan, are the parents of 5 daughters and grandparents of 21 grandchildren. They live in Klein, Texas, a suburb of Houston, and are survivors of Tropical Storm Allison (2001), Hurricane Ike (2008), the Texas drought of 2011, Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey (2017), and Winter Storm Uri (2021).
Cheryl is the author of Inspirations to a Woman in Need, Simply Prepared: A Guide to Emergency Preparedness and Food Storage, and Pantry Cooking: Unlocking Your Pantry’s Potential.
Future publications include Pantry Cooking II, Pantry Cooking with Home Preserved Foods, and the revised edition of Simply Prepared: A Guide to Emergency Preparedness and Food Storage.
For more information, read The History of Simply Prepared.