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Patricia Anne Sarlo

Thu, 10/05/2023 - 10:36

Aug. 26, 1941 - Sept. 26, 2023

Patricia Anne Sarlo “would tell you that her family was her life’s work,” her son Robert P. Sarlo wrote. “She was a devoted wife to Chris, her one-and-only, and a strong, supportive, loving mother to her four ruffian sons,” Christopher, Kevin, Robert, and Michael. “She was also a great friend and a model of service and humility in the community.”

Mrs. Sarlo died on Sept. 26 of complications of surgery. She was 82 and had been ill for nine months.

She and Christoper A. Sarlo were married on Dec. 26, 1960. At the time, she was working for Port Authority of New York, a job she kept through 1963. They lived in Shoreham from 1962 to 1975 before moving to East Hampton, where Mr. Sarlo was the principal of East Hampton High School for many years. Here, Mrs. Sarlo worked for the East Hampton Town Juvenile Aid Bureau from 1979 to 1983 and for Dr. Alan Katz, a dentist, from 1983 to 2002.

In Shoreham, she had taught religious education at St. Raphael Parish, and after moving to East Hampton did so at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, where she was also a eucharistic minister. She was a reader and a fan of the New York Times crossword puzzle.

Mrs. Sarlo enjoyed travel, from “day trips to Coney Island in the 1940s to summer weekends at the Sarlo/Locasto compound in New Jersey, to cross-country trips in the station wagon with Chris and the boys, and finally to extensive travel by air and cruise ship to places like Italy, Ireland, France, Bermuda, Alaska, and Hawaii,” her family wrote.

She was born in Brooklyn on Aug. 26, 1941, to Patrick Guthrie and the former Nora O’Leary. She grew up in Brooklyn and graduated from St. Joseph High School there.

She is survived by her husband and by her sons, Christopher T. Sarlo, Robert P. Sarlo, and Michael Sarlo, all of East Hampton, and Kevin Sarlo of Charleston, S.C. She also leaves 11 grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and a brother, Robert Guthrie of Englewood, N.J.

A service was held on Friday at Most Holy Trinity, the Rev. Ryan Creamer officiating. Mrs. Sarlo was buried at the church cemetery on Cedar Street.

Her family has suggested memorial donations to the Greater East Hampton Education Foundation, online at gehef.org.

 

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