Sara G. Earl

Sara G. Earl, died January 9th, 2011 after an almost 3 year battle with ovarian cancer (Primary Peritoneal) that she fought with courage, grace and humor.

Sara was born April 21, 1950 in Paterson, NJ and moved to St. Petersburg Florida in 1958, to Seminole Florida in 1965 and to Tallahassee in 1970 to attend FSU, which she made her much loved home until her death. She graduated from Seminole High School in 1968 and attended FSU, where she received her degree in Interior Design in 1972. In 1979 she began what she thought would be a temporary career in Real Estate sales, only to have it turn into a 32 year long career. She loved the daily challenges of the work and was very much a ‘people person'. Many of her clients became long time friends. She was quite successful in her career and from her first year in the business began collecting sales awards. It was not so much about how much business she could do, but how many people she could help and how well she could do it. She worked at Coldwell Banker Hartung and Noblin for the past 22 years of her career and won the Customer Service Award an unprecedented seven times. She was a member of the Tallahassee Board of Realtors, the Florida Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors.

In addition to committee service at the Tallahassee Board of Realtors for over twenty years, she was a long time volunteer for the Leon County Humane Society, a past board member, and a past president. She was involved in many other community and charitable causes over the years and always seemed to be using her organizational skills to help someone or some cause she held dear.

Sara is survived by daughters Abby Earl and Marnie Earl; her son Joshua Earl (Dawn), grandchildren Ellianna and Oakley, and her mother Estelle Guido, all of Tallahassee, and her sister June Guido (Steve Wieczor) of Cedarcreek, MO, along with other extended family. She leaves behind many wonderful friends and her faithful and much loved ‘therapy group'; dogs Dahlia, Jasper, and Ziti and cats Coral, Jade and Claude. She will be missed by all.

A celebration of her life will be held Saturday January 22nd from 2-6 pm at The Retreat at Bradley's Pond located at 9002 Bradley Road Tallahassee, FL 32309. At her request it will be a joyous party. Please join us as we share special memories of her lively spirit and zest for life. Dress will be casual.

The family respectfully requests no flowers (as Sara said, they are for dinner parties). Anyone wishing may send memorial donations to the Leon County Humane Society at 413 Timberlane Rd., Tallahassee, FL 32312, or the Big Bend Hospice House at 1723 Mahan Center Blvd., Tallahassee, Fl, 32308.