Apr 11, 2021

Carol Sue Christy Sayer, 83, of Port St. Lucie, Fla., passed away Sunday, February 28, 2021, in The Palms of St. Lucie West, from the ravages of Alzheimer’s disease, comfortably, while asleep.

Carol was born in Washington and raised in Burgettstown.

After graduating from high school, she studied for a year at Bethany College.

She married and lived in Miami, Fla., where she raised three boys, Christopher (wife Lisa) of Half Moon Bay, Calif., Douglas of the San Francisco area, and Jonathan of Coral Gables, Fla.

After a divorce, Carol worked as a legal secretary for a law firm in Miami. She loved traveling and took a trip by herself to California before returning east to Stuart, Fla., where she worked as a secretary at Indian River Plantation.

She was particularly interested in helping those who were sick or needed help. She served as a volunteer at Martin Memorial Hospital (now a part of the Cleveland Clinic organizaion).

In 1990, she married Jonathan Sayer IV and continued her volunteer work and service for quite some time.

She loved traveling with her husband by boat and by trailer as they explored in places like the Bahamas, the Rocky Mountains, a bit in northern Mexico and California (particularly the Pacific coast). She loved living in the home she and her husband designed for living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia, where they lived for 16 years.

As her Alzheimer’s disease progressed, her husband brought her back to live together in the independent living facility, The Palms of St. Lucie West, an area that had more possibilities for medical care.

She is survived by her husband, Jonathan; her own three children (mentioned above); a stepdaughter, Melanie Sayer; a stepson, Jonathan Sayer V and his wife, Lisa Hojnicki Sayer of Austin, Texas; two brothers, William Christy of Zanesville, Ohio, and Lawrence Christy of Annapolis, Md.; and a sister, Rebecca Fisher of Oakmont, a suburb of Pittsburgh.