CECILY A. REDDINGTON was born to Adams Jablousky and Josephine Schalady

in McClellandtown, Pa. on Nov. 11, 1920. She passed away on July 30, 2008, at Saguaro Acres Assisted Living Home ALH, where she received the best care for the last eight months of her life. Her husband Laurence was by her side.

Saguaro Acres co-owner Gayle Hanson stated, “Although Cecily was unconscious and could not speak out, she communicated her feelings and emotions through her eyes.”

Cecily was a brilliant and caring person whose career was as a senior high school English teacher. It takes tolerance and patience to teach and correct grammar, and Cecily was a natural teacher with a rare gift of compelling teaching with excellent classroom control.

She had also spent four years teaching Latin at Duquesne University in Pennsylvania as she had also majored in Latin and Greek. Cecily was broadly cultured and very artistic. She was selected by the University of Chicago for an advanced writing and artistic program and taught in high schools and colleges in Pittsburgh, Pa., New Jersey and New York.

Cecily was a quiet but dynamic person with a magnificent full-face smile that showed graciousness to all that she met. Many people commented that she was the most loving person that they had ever met.

Cecily outlived her parents, four brothers and five sisters. She suffered from serious health problems beginning in 1966 with a triple heart bypass.

Recently, she had suffered convulsions and was admitted to ICU at UMC on a ventilator. By mid-July, she was disconnected from all life support and her pacemaker and was expected to pass within two hours. Cecily stayed with us and was placed in hospice care. Doctors stated that she would never regain consciousness and would have to be fed with a feeding tube, but with Gayle’s tender care she did regain consciousness, ate, smiled, spoke and kissed Laurence one final kiss.

Visitation will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008, at Green Valley Mortuary, with a served meal following at Saguaro Acres ALH.

Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 7, at Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church.

Call Saguaro Acres, 399-2175, for information or to donate flowers in Cecily’s honor or memory.