Youngstown Private graveside services were held today for family and friends of Sarah L. ³Sally² Lyle, who entered the spirit world on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008, with her loving family by her side.
Sally will forever be warmly remembered and loved by her family, friends and students.
She was born Aug. 13, 1921, in Vanderbilt, Pa., the first child and only daughter of Philip and Charlotte Morgan Hagerty, and grew up in south western Pennsylvania and Brownlee Woods in Struthers.
Sally was a 1939 graduate of South High School and earned a B.S. degree in nursing from St. Elizabeth School of Nursing in conjunction with Youngstown College. She did postgraduate work at Brown University, under the tutelage of her beloved mentor, Miss Windley and served as an registered nurse for the naval forces in Newport, R.I. during WWII.
She worked as a RN at the Southside Hospital emergency room for 10 years, and was the anatomy and physiology professor for 23 years at Choffin for the LPN Program, and was much beloved by her scores of students.
Sally was an avid gardener and an absolute master of the art of crocheting. Her many remarkable beautiful creations remain cherished possessions of those many friends who received her gloves, sweaters and quilts.
She was also quite the intrepid and inveterate traveler who toured much of Canada, and reveled in the multitudes of N.P.¹s of the Great American West.
She was a lover of both oceans, trees, birds and the bees. She retained an extensive and personal photographic record of her multiplicity of adventuresome roamings, both alone and with her three children.
She is survived by her three children, David Alan Lyle of North Hollywood, Calif., Philip Raymond ³CK² Lyle of Youngstown and Sheilah Ann Raymond Prest of Ellsworth Township; grandson, Jeffrey S. Prest; a brother, Philip J. Hagerty of Leigh Acres, Fla.; as well as scores of nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her beloved brother, William ³Billy² Hagerty in WWII; and her infant son, Johnny in who died in 1953.
Burial took place at the Forest Lawn Cemetery where she will be beside her beloved mom and dad.
Arrangements are by the Higgins-Reardon Funeral Home, Austintown Chapel.