Sally Regina Gross' Obituary
Sally Regina Gross (nee Fox), age 95, of Daughters of Sarah Nursing Center, died on October 7, 2016. Born to Jacob and Anna Fox on April 19, 1921 in Harlem, NY, Sally was a first generation American and a proud New Yorker, growing up in Rockaway Beach, Queens.
Sally had a difficult time getting around the last few years but it was not always so. She followed her husband, Seymour, the love of her life, around the country to wherever the Navy sent him. She traveled across the US with one infant daughter in the middle of World War II and, by the end of the Korean Conflict, had traveled cross-country four times with three girls in tow. Sally’s first priority always was to make sure that her daughters were able to settle in and make new friends wherever they lived – Seattle, Alaska, California, or back in New York. When they returned to NY, they lived in the Bronx while they built a home in Baldwin, Long Island.
Sally and Seymour lived and raised their daughters in Baldwin until they retired and moved to Delray Beach, FL. After Seymour died in 2007, Sally moved north to the Beverwyck Retirement Community in Slingerlands, NY, to be near family. She made many friends there and at The Terrace at Beverwyck, at Kingsway Manor, and finally at Daughters of Sarah Nursing Center.
Sally had many careers over the years. She was a hairdresser “to the stars” in NYC before she married. She taught arts and crafts and jewelry making. Her most important job, however, was always as the love of Seymour’s life and the mother to their three daughters.
Sally was a gifted artist. She painted portraits of all of her daughters and of her husband. She painted her paternal grandparents from a photo taken in post WWI Poland. In later life, she became an accomplished jeweler until her eyesight failed her. She always loved playing games, especially Scrabble and Mah Jongg, which she learned to play when she was 17, and continued playing for the next 78 years until she no longer could see the card.
Sally was pre-deceased by her brother Solomon Fox and his wife Molly, and by her brother Murray Fox. She is survived by her sister, Hilda Lilien, her sister-in-law Beverly Fox, and her three daughters, Barbara Txi Hannah (Ruven), Martha Levy (Leo), and Gail Leila Moog (Robert). She also leaves behind the joys of her life, her six grandchildren, Adad Hannah (Linda Lee), Kefi Hannah Lahey (Darrell), Simon Levy (Nina), Toby Levy Lowe (Adam), Jacob Moog, and Forrest Moog, her six great grandchildren, and many beloved nieces and nephews as well as several special “adopted” daughters.
Funeral services are to be arranged and will be held in Florida where Sally will rejoin Seymour.
Sally’s family gives special thanks to all of the devoted caregivers at the Daughters of Sarah Nursing Center, at the Kingsway, and at the Terrace at Beverwyck, as well as to all of the independent aides who treated her with such loving care in recent years. In lieu of flowers, those wishing to remember Sally in a special way may make a memorial contribution to the Northeast Association for the Blind in Albany (NABA), 301 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12206, or to a charity of their choice.
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