Sara Rozet Wood, 86, of Naples FL, died August 27, 2007, after returning from a Caribbean cruise.
Born Sara Rozet Bull October 29, 1920, in Chicago Illinois, she was raised in Winnetka, IL, attending North Shore Country Day School and Smith College.
Sally lived most of her life in or around Winnetka IL, leaving for Florida permanently in early 2005.
Among Sally’s accomplishments during more than 50 years of volunteerism was her recent award by the Junior League of Chicago for the decade of the 1960’s in establishing the Junior Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago and the museum’s Volunteer Guide Program, which would eventually become the Art Rental and Sales Gallery, where she would remain active with the gallery and as a member of the Women’s Board well into her eighties.
In addition to community activities such as parent teacher associations, scouting, and the like throughout her children’s school years, she was involved with her husband Hank for nearly 40 years with the Hadley School for the Blind in Winnetka IL. She was an avid golfer throughout her life and was club champion or runner up many times.
As longtime skiers, Sally and her husband Hank were among the founding 100 families of Vail Colorado.
She also enjoyed tennis.
Sally traveled extensively, particularly enjoying the museums, churches, cathedrals, and temples she saw around the world on her many journeys, always having well-researched the history, geography, and culture of her destinations beforehand, and returning to many places more than once.
She enjoyed gardening, read voraciously, and was always trying new and varied restaurants.
Sally was a devoted patron of the opera, having worked in the office at the founding of the Chicago Lyric Opera and subscribing to its performances until after she had moved to Florida.
She was preceded in death by her husband of nearly 50 years, Henry C. Wood, Sr.; and her two sisters Ellen and Mary; she is survived by her four children, Richard C. (Diane) Fall, of Naples, FL, and Cashiers, NC, Sara R. (Philip) Perkins of Spartanburg, SC, Henry C. (Ikuko) Wood, Jr., of Naples FL, and David A. (Ann) Wood of South Burlington, VT; four grandchildren; many step grandchildren and great-grandchildren; her brother Richard S. Bull Jr.; many nephews, nieces and their families.
A Memorial Service will be held at 10 a.m., onFriday, September 7, 2007, in the Bower Chapel at Moorings Park in Naples FL. In lieu of flowers, please send gifts in Sally’s name to the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts www.thephil.org.
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