Mrs.
Mrs. Sally Dailey Burnett
d. June 6, 2013
Sally Elizabeth Dailey Burnett, 71, of Overland Park, passed away on Thursday, June 6 at Overland Park Regional Medical Center. A private memorial service for family and close friends will be held in mid-July.
Sally was born in Omaha Nebraska on the eve of WWII to Dr. Edmund (Jesse) and Mildred Dailey. Sally was the youngest of three, known in Omaha as "the Dailey girls". She attended Boston University and the University of Nebraska, Omaha.
Sally loved literature and "The Great Books." As a girl she studied ballet and piano. At seventeen years of age Sally taught art history classes at the Joslyn Museum of Art in Omaha. She raised her family in the greater Kansas City area. During her marriage she and her husband owned two businesses and she worked as an interior designer. As a mother, she was very active in PTA, Campfire Girls, a "Picture Lady," and taught Sunday School.
After her marriage ending in 1976, Sally's work raised the glass ceiling for women. When she began her career with the publisher Encyclopaedia Britannica she was told "women simply aren't successful in this field". Sally not only single-handedly supported a family of four, but rose to a position of assistant vice president in this long respected, international book company. Her children remember the answer to almost any question was "look it up in Britannica!" She wrote children's stories for her family as well as poetry. She loved nothing better than helping on school projects and discussing music, movies, art, history, Nebraska College football, and of course good books. Sally was a beautiful woman with gray-green eyes and a great smile, a brilliant mind, and a sharp wit.
Sally relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area for twenty years and then returned to Kansas City for retirement. She is predeceased by her sisters, Katherine Hopper and Dr. Joanna Lloyd as well as by her niece Elizabeth Hopper. She is survived by her 3 children, Alyson Burnett (and Bruce) Rawitch; and Sheridan (Dan) Burnett of Overland Park; Charity Burnett (and Francisco) Rodriguez of Lake Balboa, California; and 2 grandchildren (Michael and Sarah).
The family suggests that donations in Sally's memory be made to the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. To donate call 816.751.1ART (1278), option 2. http://nc.nelson-atkins.org/Honor.
Sally was born in Omaha Nebraska on the eve of WWII to Dr. Edmund (Jesse) and Mildred Dailey. Sally was the youngest of three, known in Omaha as "the Dailey girls". She attended Boston University and the University of Nebraska, Omaha.
Sally loved literature and "The Great Books." As a girl she studied ballet and piano. At seventeen years of age Sally taught art history classes at the Joslyn Museum of Art in Omaha. She raised her family in the greater Kansas City area. During her marriage she and her husband owned two businesses and she worked as an interior designer. As a mother, she was very active in PTA, Campfire Girls, a "Picture Lady," and taught Sunday School.
After her marriage ending in 1976, Sally's work raised the glass ceiling for women. When she began her career with the publisher Encyclopaedia Britannica she was told "women simply aren't successful in this field". Sally not only single-handedly supported a family of four, but rose to a position of assistant vice president in this long respected, international book company. Her children remember the answer to almost any question was "look it up in Britannica!" She wrote children's stories for her family as well as poetry. She loved nothing better than helping on school projects and discussing music, movies, art, history, Nebraska College football, and of course good books. Sally was a beautiful woman with gray-green eyes and a great smile, a brilliant mind, and a sharp wit.
Sally relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area for twenty years and then returned to Kansas City for retirement. She is predeceased by her sisters, Katherine Hopper and Dr. Joanna Lloyd as well as by her niece Elizabeth Hopper. She is survived by her 3 children, Alyson Burnett (and Bruce) Rawitch; and Sheridan (Dan) Burnett of Overland Park; Charity Burnett (and Francisco) Rodriguez of Lake Balboa, California; and 2 grandchildren (Michael and Sarah).
The family suggests that donations in Sally's memory be made to the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. To donate call 816.751.1ART (1278), option 2. http://nc.nelson-atkins.org/Honor.
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