JILLIAN-SACKLER-Obituary

JILLIAN SACKLER

Boston, Massachusetts

1940 - 2025-05-20

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SACKLER, JILLIAN Dame Jillian Sackler, D.B.E. (1940–2025) The philanthropist Dame Jillian Sackler, who passed away last Tuesday, age 84, from Esophageal cancer, was born in 1940 in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Her parents, Kenneth Tully and Doris Queenie Gillman Smith, met while working at the...

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This is a postscript as I left a message a few days ago. I just wanted to say that, if any of Jill´s relatives would be so kind as to send me an email - I would like to know where her remains are interred, and it would just be so nice to have a connection with someone close to her. I loved her very much. Thank you in anticipation.

I just sent a card to Jill a few days ago! Tonight I learned that she has passed away. I am in shock. We met in London when we were secretaries for the Medical News Tribune, in the 1960s. I moved to Canada in the 70s and she came to visit me with her lovely mother in 1975. In 1977 I stayed with her and Arthur in their Manhattan apartment. We were in touch via email until quite recently - I had so hoped to see her again. Jill was a beautiful woman, inside and out, and she was very smart and...

Dame Sackler was a gracious supporter of the arts and contributed to the Milnes Voice program fir which we are eternally grateful. May her memory be a blessing.