Sarah Miller McGarry

Sarah Miller McGarry

Cottonwood - Sarah McGarry, resident of Cottonwood, Arizona, died on January 26th, 2021 at 79 years. Sarah was born on March 10th, 1941 in St. Louis, Missouri, the eldest of four children of Paul and Marie Bischoff Miller. She graduated from John Burroughs School in St. Louis in 1959 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bryn Mawr College in 1963 as an English Major. She married Robert Lawrence Bouquet in 1963 and resided in New York City and Lake Forest, IL till their divorce in 1975. She obtained a graduate degree in Library Science from the University of Arizona and was the Director of the Cottonwood Public Library from 1976 to 1981. She married Joe McGarry in 1981 and moved to Phoenix. She served as an administrator at the Phoenix Public Library from 1983 until her retirement in 1998, having supervised all eleven branches and headed up Technical Services. She was involved in the planning and building of the Burton Barr Central Library. She was the driving force in the recovery to the Phoenix Public Library of the Alfred Knight Rare Book Collection from ASU, which Knight had willed to "The People of Phoenix". She pursued her art and photography in retirement and was a life-long lover of books and the South West.

Sarah was preceded in death by her parents and her brother Daniel Miller of Tucson, AZ. She is survived by her beloved husband Joe McGarry, her two brothers John Miller of Pasadena, CA, and Paul Miller of Nashville, TN, her two children from her first marriage, Tom Bouquet (Rowena Yeung) of La Cañada, CA, and Amanda Bouquet (Michael Sprague) of New York, NY, and her three stepchildren, Melissa Smith of Tucson, AZ, Peter McGarry (Kimberly) of Beaverton, OR, and Constance Hicks (Dennis) of Austin, TX. She was the caring grandmother to eight grandchildren, Billy, Joey, Christopher, Alexander, Meghan, Stephen, Emma and Lawrence.

Remembrances may be sent to CurePSP, 1216 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001, online at www.psp.org, or Friends of Phoenix Public Library, online at www.plfriends.org.