Sarah Rosella Montgomery Muir died January 25 at the age of 89. She was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh, one of three sisters. She was always known as Rosella or "Sally" to family and friends.
Sally was a student at Slippery Rock University in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania before joining the Navy and being stationed in Waukegan, Illinois. She married Bill Muir, a Marine in 1950 and they moved to Quantico, Virginia, where she would resign her commission and become a full time homemaker and mother to five daughters over the next fifteen years.
In 1969, when Major Muir retired from the Marine Corps, the family moved to Atlanta. Sally commenced to making the yard of the home they would live in for the next 36 years a series of lush gardens, growing both flowers and vegetables with the skill of a master gardener.
Sally loved her nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren immensely. She also loved gardening, cats, quilting, cooking, prose and poetry all of her life. After a severe stroke in 2008, she was cared for at A G Rhodes Health and Rehab at Wesley Woods, where she had many friends.
Sally's spirit and interests live on in her daughters. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her.
