Sharry Konopski

About Sharry Konopski

In 1987, Sharry Konopski had her fling in the limelight. As Playboy magazine's Miss August, she was hosted at Hugh Hefner's mansion. At home in Longview, dozens of admirers lined up to have the 5-foot-2, 19-year-old blonde sign her autograph across her centerfold.

"Playboy's in the past. I did my dream," said Sharry Konopski DeBolt, 27, now married and the mother of two - Spencer, 6, and Siera, 4. "My first dream was to be a model. I had that experience. I would have regretted it if I hadn't done it. I think it was a great experience. I'm preserved in stone."

In the early-morning hours of April 1st 1995, while driving on Spirit Lake Memorial Highway, she tried to avoid three deer. Her car left the road and flipped. She broke two vertebrae and several ribs and punctured her lung. Sharry was left a paraplegic. A resident of Silverlake, Cowlitz County, has steel rods in her back, cannot control her bladder and faces a life of permanent paralysis from the waist down. Nevertheless, she continued to model, and also appeared in videos geared towards "devotees" of paraplegics and amputees, she posed again for Playboy in March 1997.

Sharry died on August 25, 2017 from complications from pneumonia. She was 49.