17/12/2025
💫 Resident Spotlight: Sally💫 Sally was born in 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio. She has one brother, Burt, who is one year her senior. Times were tough in the early years of Sally's life. Her father passed away when she was 3 years old, leaving her young mother with 2 young kids to raise. Sally and her brother attended the local schools in Garfield Heights and she soon found herself with many friends, some that lasted a lifetime. Her best friend was a classmate named Annie and they soon became inseparable, enjoying high school activities, parties, and sharing all their troubles together.
They took a cruise ship vacation together to Bermuda in the summer of 1957. This began a love of travel that Sally enjoyed her entire life.
Sally was an exceptional typist and upon earning her Secretarial Diploma, went to work at the Sohio Gas and Oil Corporation in downtown Cleveland. There, she met a young engineering student on his work rotation from college. His name was Floyd, and while Sally was not too interested in him at first, Floyd persisted and ended up winning her heart. They were married in August 1959 and 3 children soon followed. Like most young women in those years, Sally gave up working to devote her time to kids and home while Floyd embarked on a career with General Electric as a young engineer. As Floyd advanced up his career ladder, moves to different GE plant locations followed, taking the young family from Cleveland, Ohio, to Marblehead, Massachusetts; Cincinnati, Ohio, to Louisville, Kentucky, Muskego, Wisconsin, and finally back to Louisville.
Sally and Floyd had made many lifelong friends in Louisville and it became their final stop and adopted hometown. Floyd retired from GE in 1996 and he and Sally soon developed a love of cruise travel in the years that followed taking many trips all over the world.
Special thanks to Sally's family for sharing this beautiful story!
