OBITUARIES
SALLY M. COLLETTI
Sally M. Colletti, of Spring Hill, Fla. and Nantucket, died Wednesday July 25, 2007 in Fountain Hills, Ariz. following a brief illness. She was 90 years old.

Mrs. Colletti was born June 9, 1917 in Brooklyn, N.Y. and spent most of her early years in New York. She met her future husband, Joseph Colletti, in a Wall Street restaurant and married him July 30, 1949. They settled in Queens, N.Y. and began raising their family.

In the '50s and '60s, Mrs. Colletti, along with Joe managed two successful restaurants in New York City, handling a busy lunch crowd of hungry New York office workers with her classic N.Y. humor and no-nonsense attitude. In 1969, the couple was offered an opportunity to come to Nantucket to manage the Sweet Shop on Main Street. Always up for a road trip, they packed up the blue Caddy and their three children for "just one summer" but like many others, they decided to make Nantucket their home after the season was over.

Mrs. Colletti worked at the Jared Coffin House in the housekeeping department and she and her husband managed the Sea Shell rooming house on Centre Street offering a clean room and freshly laundered sheets to many young island men during the laid back '70s. The couple also ran The Rotary Restaurant taking great pride in their immaculately clean establishment while serving up their delicious fried chicken to all.

Mrs. Colletti and her husband retired to Spring Hill in 1983 and for decades enjoyed all the fine things Florida offers a retiree. After her husband's death in 2002, Mrs. Colletti continued to live independently in her lovely lakeside home. Happily she was able to celebrate her recent 90th birthday with her daughter and family in Arizona.

Mrs. Colletti is survived by her son, Robert Colletti and his wife Christine of Nantucket; two daughters, Aileen (Colletti) Conrad of Nantucket and Gail (Colletti) Young and her husband Rick of Fountain Hills, Ariz.; six grandchildren and two great grandsons.

Funeral arrangements will be private.