HEALY, Sarah Albright
Lastly! After 5 years enduring the results of a number of myeloma, Sarah Albright Healy died on October 8 in Colorado Springs. Lastly, she would say with aid!
Sarah was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on November 14, 1957, to Joann (Worth) Albright and Clarence V. Albright (1927-2010). Along with her sister, Lucy Meade Albright (Morgantown, WV), they moved to Springfield, Ohio. There Sarah graduated from Springfield North Excessive College (1975) and Wittenberg College (1979), the place she pledged Delta Gamma Fraternity. After instructing highschool English in Enon, Ohio, for one 12 months, she moved to New York Metropolis and labored briefly on the Rockefeller College Press as a duplicate editor. Then for the following 34 years, she labored in numerous editorial capacities, each in home and off-site, within the journals operations division of RELX (previously Elsevier Science Publishing Firm). Her colleagues turned pricey buddies.
Sarah met Michael Healy in New York Metropolis in 1986. They married in 1989 and moved to Vermont. In the course of the subsequent 23 years in South Burlington, they raised their kids, Daniel (New York, NY), and Eleanor (Parker, CO), and had been blessed with many great buddies.
After transferring to Colorado Springs in 2013, Sarah fell in love with its citizenry and tradition and with the area’s pure magnificence and wealthy historical past, particularly inside the arts. Sarah solid deep friendships, beginning together with her Delta Gamma
Fraternity Alumnae Chapter sisters. She served on the board of the Girl’s Academic Society of Colorado School and was honored to steer its annual Van Briggle Competition and Tour of the Van Briggle Memorial Pottery constructing at Colorado
School.
After her a number of myeloma prognosis, Sarah found there was no assist group within the metropolis, so she led the trouble to kind one with the assistance of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
As she started most cancers therapy, she discovered one of many few meals she may tolerate was a chocolate-dipped chocolate delicate serve ice cream cone from The Drive Inn, Tasty Freeze, close to the Rocky Mountain Most cancers Middle at Penrose Hospital. In 2018, the Delta Gammas helped fee an ice cream cone sculpture by artist Sean O’Meallie for set up within the Tactile Gallery of the Wonderful Arts Middle at Colorado School. This piece displayed in Sarah’s honor celebrates the “sweetness of life.”
Sarah beloved baking breads and pies, cooking with home-grown herbs, propagating African violets, internet hosting events and huge household gatherings, celebrating holidays, giving presents, watching hummingbirds, laughing at unhealthy jokes and the
foibles of individuals, taking up the challenges of worthy initiatives, serving to others, and upsetting full of life conversations. Principally, she beloved the heat and blessing of a lifetime’s value of true buddies, ideally with a glass or two of wine. A
vivacious spirit and supply of pleasure and inspiration for her household and buddies, Sarah is survived by her husband, kids,
mom, and sister.
Sarah and her household thank her many buddies and different caregivers for all their love and assist, together with the Colorado Springs Delta Gamma Fraternity Alumnae Chapter, the Girl’s Academic Society of Colorado School, Cheyenne Mountain Newcomers Membership, the Tuesday Luncheon Membership, Rocky Mountain Most cancers Facilities, Pikes Peak Hospice and
Palliative Care, and Sarah’s many buddies who stuffed her life with consolation and love.
In lieu of flowers, please think about a donation to the Tactile Gallery of the Colorado Springs Wonderful Arts Middle at Colorado School, the Colorado College for the Deaf and the Blind, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, or Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care. Consider Sarah and the sweetness of life everytime you get pleasure from an ice cream cone or a glass of wine! Sarah’s life will likely be celebrated every time she is remembered with pleasure. L’chaim!