In Tuesday’s (7/5) Baltimore Sun, Jessica Anderson writes, “Joan Brown Sadler, a nurse, avid gardener and volunteer for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, died June 28 of breast cancer at Mercy Hospital. The longtime Roland Park resident was 76.” Shortly after her husband Dr. John H. Sadler finished medical school at Duke University “the family moved to Atlanta, where Dr. Sadler completed his residency and Mrs. Sadler later left nursing to work as a teacher’s aide so she could spend more time with their daughter and son. While in Atlanta, the couple had season tickets to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and she began to volunteer, helping to organize the decorator’s show house fundraiser each year, among other activities with the organization.” The family relocated to Baltimore in 1972. “As a volunteer, Mrs. Sadler began doing odd jobs, such as stuffing envelopes, but she helped start the Baltimore Symphony Decorator’s Show House fundraisers and became the organization’s first chairwoman. She later served as the president of the Baltimore Symphony Associates volunteer organization.”
Posted July 5, 2011
