Pfeiffer was award-winning interior designer

Cheryl Ann Pfeiffer was remembered as an award-winning interior designer whose work drew praise from both judges and visitors at the annual Parade of Homes.

Her husband recalled she was their company's creative force, and that her eye for color emerged while working in a San Antonio wallpaper store.

But perhaps the most important memory of her came from her 15-year-old son, Cody Pfeiffer.

The best thing about her, he said, was how much she cared about me and my brothers.

They're Connor, 16, and Cameron, 12.

Pfeiffer, who with her husband Craig Pfeiffer owned the design company Interior Ideas, died of cancer Wednesday. She was 49.

The Milwaukee native didn't start out with an interest in interior design. She followed her brothers into computer science and hated it.

In the early 1980s, she came to San Antonio and quickly decided she didn't want to face another Midwestern winter.

She studied interior design at what was then Incarnate Word College, taking heavy course loads to graduate early, in 1986, and working at a Wallpapers To Go store.

Pfeiffer felt at home around colors and textures, which her husband described as being at the heart of their business.

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Pfeiffer was award-winning interior designer