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Sarah “Sally” Bowles

Birth	:	26 Apr 1938 New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Death	:	2011 Essex, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Burial	:	River View Cemetery, Essex, Middlesex County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.3569183, -72.3919220
Description	:	Obituary BOWLES--Sarah, passed away in her sleep at home in Essex, CT, on June 5. She will be remembered for her irreverent wit, generosity, love of life even in illness, trenchant critiques of what she considered erroneous political ideas, and lifelong commitment to public service. And also for her hilarious holiday gifts to the children of her extended family of Bowles, Bennets, Coombs and others. Sally (as most people knew her) was born April 26, 1938 in New Haven, the daughter of Dorothy Stebbins Bowles and Chester Bowles, a former governor of the State of Connecticut, Under Secretary of... Read More	Obituary BOWLES--Sarah, passed away in her sleep at home in Essex, CT, on June 5. She will be remembered for her irreverent wit, generosity, love of life even in illness, trenchant critiques of what she considered erroneous political ideas, and lifelong commitment to public service. And also for her hilarious holiday gifts to the children of her extended family of Bowles, Bennets, Coombs and others. Sally (as most people knew her) was born April 26, 1938 in New Haven, the daughter of Dorothy Stebbins Bowles and Chester Bowles, a former governor of the State of Connecticut, Under Secretary of State under John F. Kennedy and Ambassador to India. She was educated in the Sidwell Friends School (in Washington, DC), Essex Elementary School, Noah Webster Elementary School (in Hartford), the Delhi Public School (in India), the Milton Academy and Smith College, where she was coxswain of the college crew and head of student government. She was among the founders of the Peace Corps as Sargent Shriver's right hand in the early 1960s and went on to be New York Mayor John Lindsey 's education advisor during the tumultuous late 1960s and early 70s. She met with African National Congress leaders Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu as part of a Rockefeller Foundation initiative supporting the struggle to end apartheid in the 1980s. She also served as Deputy Commissioner of Welfare and in other capacities for the State of Connecticut. During the 1990s she left public employment to become a national leader in the management of private philanthropy and a member of the board of directors of several nonprofit foundations focusing on learning, positions that she continued to hold until her death. In recent years, despite a serious respiratory illness, her signature enthusiasm and energy touched everyone in her orbit. Many who knew her only on the telephone (from which she was never far) were unaware that she was ill. She said she would live a life in full as long as it went; and she did. She leaves her brothers Sam and Chester, sisters Cynthia Aguilar and Barbara Coolidge, stepson Jody Rosen and a circle of lifelong, loving friends that stretches from the lower Connecticut Valley to India and across the world. The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations in her memory be sent to the Connecticut Nature Conservancy or the World Press Institute. A memorial service is planned for September. Published in The New York Times on June 18, 2011

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Sarah “Sally” Bowles's memorial is located at: River View Cemetery, Essex, Middlesex County, USA.
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Sarah “Sally” Bowles death on 2011 in Essex, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
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Latitude: 41.3569183
Longitude: -72.3919220

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