ET at the Caroline Black Garden, New London, CT. A garden stroll in her honor will take place on Sunday, at 11:00 a.m. She is also survived by her bevy of great-grandchildren: Kai, Dessa, Nathaniel, Cora, Mina, Dean, Cecilia, Caroline, Isidora, and Nephelie.Ī Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, at 2:00 p.m. Her extraordinary memory and indomitable spirit lives on in her eight grandchildren: Alec and Ben Haavik Emily, Max, Theo, and Lydia Brunner Roy J. Taylor (†) of Woodridge, Illinois, and Sally Brunner of Ridgefield. She was the devoted mother of three children: Nan Haavik of Norwalk, Roy D. Most recently, while living at StoneRidge in Mystic, CT, Sally led efforts to create the ‘Tree Trail’ and to beautify the landscape. She received the Mehlquist Award from the Connecticut Horticulture Society for education, and a similar award from the Soil Conservation Service of New London County.
She also served on the Governor’s Commission for Connecticut’s Future, the State Natural Area Preserve Advisory Committee, and the Southeastern Connecticut Water Authority Advisory Board. Sally wrote many Arboretum bulletins on woody plants and marine algae served as editor of two publications for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and authored the book, A Traveler’s Guide to the Woody Plants of Turkey, based on her research and many trips to that country.Ī committed environmentalist, Sally served on the Waterford Conservation Commission, the Southeastern Connecticut Resource and Recycling Association, the boards of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association, the Pequot Woods, and the Waterford Land Trust (formerly West Farms Land Trust). Sally was a Professor of Botany, director of the program in Human Ecology, and managed the Caroline Black Garden at Connecticut College from 1964-1990. in Brooklyn until her marriage in 1946 to Dr. After graduation, she worked at Pfizer Inc. She graduated at 18 with her BA in Zoology from the University of Maine in Orono and earned her master’s degree at the University of Indiana (1945). The daughter of Cora Blaisdell and Ben Lockett, Sally was born in 1925 in Oakland California, but grew up on an apple orchard in Winterport, Maine. Sally’s extensive travels have criss-crossed the globe with repeated journeys to Turkey and to Antarctica. She will be deeply missed by her family, friends, and all who knew her wit, deep intelligence, ferocity, and taste for adventure. Sally Lockett Taylor, noted botanist, of Mystic, CT, died at home on Apat age 97.
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