A viewing for Sally T. McClelland will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m., Sunday, March 31, and Monday, April 1, at Duda-Ruck Funeral Home, 7922 Wise Ave., with services Tuesday, April 2, at 11 a.m. Interment will follow at Oak Lawn Cemetery.
{reg}The longtime Dundalk resident and veteran teacher died March 24 at her home of natural causes. She was 88 and lived on Robinwood Road.
Born in Monessen, Pa., the daughter of the late John and Sally Tanttari was raised on Friendship Circle. As a teenager during World War II, she worked for the Finnish Relief Committee.
She graduated from Sparrows Point High School in 1941 and from Towson State Teachers’ College([now Towson University) in 1945.
She first taught at Essex Elementary School beginning in 1945 and later at Middlesex Elementary School. She served as principal at Hillendale Elementary School (now Halstead Academy) from 1962 to 1979.
She was an avid reader and a founding member of the Halethorpe Community Church.
Children Gary McClelland and Sandra Pfarr and three grandchildren survive her.
Along with her parents, husband John A. “Otts” McClelland and brother Ulias “Nick” Tanttari preceded her in death.{/reg}
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