Terry Warren Sullivan
Terry Warren Sullivan, born in Owosso, Michigan on June 29, 1935, died on January 6, 2016 after a long illness at her home in Memphis, Tennessee.
The daughter of Charles Thomas Warren and Katharine Davis Warren spent her early childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, and her high school years in Des Moines, Iowa where she graduated from Teddy Roosevelt High School. After High School she moved with her family to Saudi Arabia where her father was a civil engineer with Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco). She attended the American University in Beirut, Lebanon and studied piano at the Conservatoire de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland. She graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois with a degree in English. Terry began her teaching career in Dallas and later moved to Chicago where she taught French at The Latin School prior to marriage and the birth of her four daughters.
In 1967 she moved to Memphis with her daughters where she taught History at Hutchison School. Always one to further her education, when the opportunity arose to study information technology in the Methodist Hospital System, she responded and eventually became a senior computer programmer. She worked on and wrote programs which were used at hospitals nationwide.
As a communicant of Calvary Episcopal Church she enjoyed many useful years as a volunteer in the Homeless Ministry and as a Waffle Shop volunteer.
She leaves behind her husband of thirty-one years, Dr. Joseph A. Sullivan, a sister Penelope Warren Adkins of Greenwood, Indiana; daughters Missy Burrows, Joslyn Burrows, Stephanie Burrows Pestona and Michelle Burrows, all currently living in Texas; stepsons Joseph A. Sullivan, of New York City, New York and Peter Sullivan and his wife, Tina, of Memphis, Tennessee and four grandchildren.
Visitation will be 4-6 p.m. Wednesday, January 27 at Canale Funeral Directors. Funeral service will be 11 a.m. Thursday, January 28, 2016 at Calvary Episcopal Church.
The family requests in lieu of flowers that donations be made to the Church Health Center or Calvary Episcopal Church.