Sara Louise Woll Douie

Sara Louise Woll Douie died Monday afternoon, August 6th, at the Brethren Village Health Care Center; Lancaster, PA.

Mrs. Douie was born in Philadelphia, PA on December 17, 1929.  She graduated from the Lankenau School in 1947, and attended Wheaton College and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where she met her husband, Harvey C. Douie, Jr. They were married in 1952.

Between 1953 and 1970 the Douies resided in Greenwich, Haddonfield, and Rumson, NJ where Mrs. Douie became active in the Presbyterian Women’s Association and taught Sunday school.  She also volunteered at Riverview Hospital in Red Bank, NJ. In 1970 the Douies moved to Shippensburg, PA where Mrs. Douie worked as a secretary for the Business Department at Shippensburg State University. She also became active with the Faith-At-Work movement.

In 1978, her husband was called as pastor to the Parsippany Presbyterian Church, Parsippany, NJ where Mrs. Douie worked for Allied Chemical Corporation, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, and for several other companies including Braunschweiger Jewelers. The Douies retired to Elizabethtown, PA in 1996 before moving to Brethren Village. Mrs. Douie participated in the Institute for Learning in Retirement Program at Elizabethtown College. She also volunteered as a music assistant in the Alzheimer’s unit at the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown, PA.

Mrs. Douie was an avid needlewoman, with knitting, needlepoint, and cross-stitch among her skills. In later years she collected dolls.  She took loving care of her husband Harvey, an Alzheimer’s patient, for five years until his death last September.

Surviving Mrs. Douie are her daughter Deborah Douie Merritt of Philadelphia; her son and daughter-in-law, David Woll and Bonnie K. Douie of Mantua, NJ; her grandson, Alexander F. Douie of Mantua, NJ; and her fiancé, Charles M. Bieber of Brethren Village.

Friends will be received on Saturday, August 18^th from 10-11AM at the chapel at Brethren Village, 3001 Lititz Pike, Lancaster, with the memorial service to follow at 11AM. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Brethren Village Samaritan Fund, 3001 Lititz Pike, Lancaster, PA 17606, Hospice of Lancaster County, 685 Good Dr., Box 4125, Lancaster, PA 17604 or the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Donor Services, Box 4072, Pittsfield, MA 01202.