BANGOR and FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. – Sally Tabenken, wife of the late Samuel Tabenken, died Jan. 21, 2004, at a Bangor hospital. She was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, the daughter of Jacob and Gertrude Saklad. She was a graduate of Hunter College in New York City and Washington Square College at New York University. Sally was the owner and director of Camp Pinecrest for Girls at Naples, Me. She served on the public relations committee of the American Camping Assoc., Maine Camp Directors Assoc., and the executive board of the Leonard School for Girls in New York City. She also served on the Naples Community Council Committee, charter member of the P.T.A. of the First Consolidated School in Naples, served as the first delegate to the Maine State Congress of Parents and Teachers for the Naples District, was a correspondent for Naples and Casco Region for Gannett Newspapers of Portland, corporator of Eastern Maine Medical Center, board member of EMMC and served on the fund raising campaign for the building and expansion program, chairman, Eastern Region of the Maine Assoc. of Hospital Auxiliaries, executive board member and program and special events chairman of the Maine Assoc. Hospital Auxiliaries, chairman of the Silver Jubilee Tea of Maine Assoc. Hospital Auxiliaries at the Governor’s Mansion, board member of St. Joseph’s Hospital Auxiliary, Adult Dental Clinic of Bangor, Penobscot Valley Chapter of the Red Cross, Education and Scholarship chairman for the Bangor Art Society, chairman of the first Youth Art Awards show sponsored by the Bangor Art Society, fund raising chairman for the restoration of the Farrar Mansion, past vice-chairman and first area representative chairman of Symphony Women, corporate member and executive board member of Sarah Caldwell’s Opera New England of Northern Maine, vice-president of the Penobscot Valley Garden Club, Maine Representative for Visiting International Students in Travel Program, patron of the Arts, University of Maine, patron of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, patron Opera New England of Northern Maine, Order of Eastern Star of Bridgton. She is survived by her daughter, Beth Margot K. Metzger of Scottsdale, Ariz., and son, James Lee Kaplan of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. and Bangor. In addition to her husband and parents, she was predeceased by her brothers, David Saklad, Dr. Maurice Saklad; her sisters, Rosalind Pap, Beatrice Saklad. Services will be private for the family in New York. If you would like to remember Sally in a special way, contributions may be sent to Eastern Maine Charities for the benefit of the EMMC Auxiliary, P.O. Box 404, Bangor 04402-0404. A service of Brookings-Smith, 133 Center St., Bangor.
SALLY TABENKEN
