Mary Louise Noto Sattler, 86, of Tifton, died Wednesday, February 29, 2012, at VistaCare Hospice at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Funeral services will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 4, 2012, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Rev. Christopher Brown of Ashburn will officiate with burial to follow in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Marvin Wood, Bruce Wood, Taylor Sumner, Henry Sumner, Evan Sumner and Travis Riner will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends on Saturday, March 3, 2012, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. The family will be at the Sattler home at 3870 U. S. Highway 82 West, Tifton.
Mrs. Sattler was born on May 19, 1925 in Scranton, Pennsylvania and was the daughter of Thomas Noto of Naples, Italy and Italia Sartor Noto of Venice, Italy, both deceased. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Frank Charles Sattler, who died in 2006 and whom she married in Falls Church, Virginia on October 17, 1953; and three siblings, Thomas and Victor Noto and Charlotte “Sissy” Egnot. She graduated with her BSN from Keystone College in Pennsylvania and worked Emergency Room and Psychiatric at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. She was a member of Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Vienna, Virginia. In recent years, she has been a resident of Cypress Pond Assisted Living in Tifton; Magnolia Manor in Americus; and Golden Living Center in Tifton. She spent her last days at Emory University Hospital and VistaCare Hospice in Atlanta.
Mrs. Sattler is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Rev. Thomas Daniel and Leshia Sattler of Tifton; grandchildren, Danielle Ashley, Jessica Renee, Melissa Italia, Audriana Lauren, Heather Anne, Adam Thomas and Rachel Louise Sattler; and great-grandchild, Olivia Jewel.
She is also survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Terry Daniel and Debra Sattler of Knoxville, Tennessee; and grandchildren, Elizabeth Ashley and Alexander Taylor Sattler.
May God bless our mother, grandmother and great-grandmother for the heritage that she leaves behind: a commitment to family and the ways of the Old Country.