Sally Ann Bryant

Sally Ann Bryant, of Denver, passed away at home, surrounded by family, on Wednesday, August 30 after a brief illness. She was 88.
She was born Sally Ann Schminke, on September 27, 1928, in Nebraska City, Neb., and grew up in Tucson, Ariz. She received a BS in Geology and an MS in Paleontology from the University of Arizona, and did geologic mapping around Holbrook, Ariz. She married Donald Bryant -- also a geologist -- in 1952, and over the next six decades they worked and travelled together, raising a family along the way. They were among the first US Citizens to visit Red China, on a 1982 People-To-People trip with other geologists.
She was a past volunteer and fundraiser for the Denver Art Museum and the Denver Botanic Gardens, and a long-time member of Welcome To Colorado. She will be remembered for the easy grace and competence she brought to everything she did, as well as a deep and abiding kindness toward other people. And she will be forever missed.
She was preceded in death by her husband, and a daughter, Elizabeth. She is survived by a daughter, Ellen, two sons, Stephen and Edward (Vicki), and two grandchildren. In accordance with her wishes, there will be no service; memorial donations may be made to Planned Parenthood.