FITZGERALD, SALLY JAC (WIESNETH) passed away on February 11, 2025 from pneumonia at age 87. She was born in November 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska to Otto (Jack) and Alice Jackman Wiesneth, the first child of four. She graduated from Louisville, Nebraska High School in 1955 and the University of Nebraska in Lincoln in 1959 with a degree in Business Administration. She went to work for the original AT&T Long Lines Division in White Plains, New York in the Information Technology Department, known then as Data Processing, and then for IBM as a systems engineer in Los Angeles, California. She married Thomas Anthony FitzGerald in April 1966. They bought a home in Rancho Palos Verdes in 1969 and soon thereafter had two daughters, Anne and Denise. In 1979, they relocated to Atlanta, GA.

Sally gave many hours to the Fulton County School District and the schools her children attended and took leadership roles in PTA serving as co-president of Sandy Springs Middle School and co-president of the North Fulton Council of PTAs. For many years she represented the League of Women Voters and Georgia PTA at the Georgia General Assembly writing reports for the membership of each on a weekly basis, and for nine years on a daily basis for the state PTA. Additional activities included treasurer of the 1984 effort to convert Fulton County school board members to elected representatives. She also supported the incorporation of Sandy Springs in 2005. Both measures passed overwhelmingly. She was a member of the 1993-94 Leadership Sandy Springs class and subsequently served as treasurer of that organization and hosted Leadership classes annually at the Capitol on Government Day.

Survivors include daughter Anne (David) Blankenship of Tulsa, OK, and their children Jacob (Jake) and Ashley, and daughter Denise Wright and her son Charlie, sisters Marge Addleman of LaGrande, OR, and Mary Wiesneth of Louisville, NE, 4 nephews, two nieces, three grandnieces and four grandnephews and two great grandnieces. Her spouse, parents, and brother, Robert, predeceased her.