Barbara Jane Savage

1938 - 2015

Barbara Jane Savage, 77, of Cathedral City, Calif., passed away on April 18, 2015 in Redlands, Calif. She was born March 19, 1938 to Candido and Alma Cardoza in New Bedford, Mass. Early in her life, she lived in Germany and in Italy and became fluent in both the German and Italian languages. She married Bruce H. Savage on December 16, 1979 in Boston, Mass. She worked as a Professional Fund Raiser for Friends of Eye Research with famed Dr. Schappens in Boston and then with the Italian-American Cultural Association in Cambridge, Mass., and later as a Fund Raiser and Event Coordinator for the U.S. Tennis Association. Upon retiring to the desert in 2000, she worked for Allstate Insurance Company. During this time, she began to write of her many life experiences and travels, both here and in Europe and they have been published in Anthology titled "The Road Taken". In her last years, she worked for Cinemark at The River where she greeted opera goers for The Metropolitan Opera Video Broadcast. She is survived by her loving husband of 35 years, Bruce H. Savage of Cathedral City, Calif.; and her son, John Cermak and his family of Pacific Palisades, Calif. A Chapel Service will be held on Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 10:00 am in the Ramon Chapel at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Cathedral City.

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