JUPITER, FLa.—We deeply mourn the loss of Sari Helen Glasser Erlanger, cherished, wife, mother, grandmother, sister and aunt, who died after a brief illness, on April 5, 2012.
She was born in Norfolk, Nov. 30, 1933, a daughter of the late Robert and Anna Glasser.
Sari graduated from Maury High School and attended Mary Washington College, in Fredericksburg, where she met and later married her husband, David Erlanger. Sari later graduated from Adirondack Community College, Queensbury, N.Y., with an associate degree in Liberal Arts.
She spent her lifetime raising her three children in Glens Falls, N.Y., and volunteering to help others. Sari’s volunteer work included pastoral care at Jupiter Medical Center. She was also a corresponding secretary at Temple Beth Am, Jupiter, Fla.
Besides her husband David, she is survived by her brother, Morton (Lynne) Glasser, her children, Rhonda (Erlanger) Mitchell, Wendy (Erlanger) and Alan Porter, and Kay (Erlanger) and Michael McNamara. Sari is also survived by four grandchildren: Travis and Courtney Mitchell, Ethan Porter, and Andrew McNamara; many cousins, and five nieces and nephews.
To celebrate her lifetime of commitment to charitable giving and countless years of service to the Jupiter, Fla., and Glens Falls, N.Y. areas, the family has asked for donations to Hospice of Palm Beach County or Temple Beth Am, in Jupiter, or Temple Beth El, Glens Falls.
Services were held at Temple Beth Am, Jupiter. Interment took place at Temple Beth El Cemetery, So. Glens Falls, N.Y. Star of David Funeral Chapel, West Palm Beach, Fla.