SHERI SALTZBERG

SALTZBERG--SHERI, died February 12th at 74 after a courageous 10-year battle with cancer. Red diaper baby and lifelong New Yorker (CCNY '71; NYU, MPA '79), she was beloved and survived by her husband of 49 years, Mark Grashow (Brooklyn), her children, Alexander Grashow (Yasuko Tamaki, deceased; Brooklyn), Rachel Grashow (Ken Walton; Cambridge, MA), her siblings, Renee Paton (Oxford, England), Harris Saltzberg (New York City and Poughkeepsie) and her grandchildren, Sakura, Shogo, Hiro, Nika and Tessa, along with countless friends, fellow quilters and others, whom she fed, housed and cared for. During the height of the AIDS crisis, she was a public health advocate for women and children with AIDS. In her later years, along with Mark, she founded and ran the US-Africa Children's Fellowship www.usacf.net which works with American schools to donate critical educational supplies to schools in Africa and elsewhere. She cherished her family and friends, kindness, justice and Jewish cooking, and was delighted to see a Biden Presidency. A memorial is planned for the weekend of May 22nd. For more information, contact: mars475@aol.com