Sarah Lorraine Connors

Sarah Lorraine Connors, age 73, of Jacksonville, Florida, passed away on March 3, 2021 at Baptist Medical Center, downtown Jacksonville. She was born in Lewisburg, West Virginia, raised in Charleston, WV and later moved to Baltimore, MD, where she graduated from Western High School, an “all-girls” school in Baltimore, with the Class of 1966. She married Don Phillip Brannan in Baltimore in 1967 and started their married life in where they began their family of two children. Sarah and family later moved to Sykesville, MD, where she helped run her family’s taxi business, the Carroll County Taxi Company. After her children were grown, Sarah went back to nursing school at Catonsville Community College. Upon graduating, she worked as a Nurse at the Springfield Mental Hospital for many years. She later went to work as an Inspector for the Joint Commission helping health care facilities in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia with Accreditation and Certification. In 2001, after the death of her husband Sarah moved to Jacksonville, NC, to help raise her grandchildren before settling in Jacksonville, Florida. Sarah was a longtime member of West Meadows Baptist Church, where she served as a Sunday School Teacher and Youth Volunteer. She met and married James Connors at West Meadows. Sarah was a true servant of Jesus Christ, always asking, “What can I do to help?” Her life motto was “I want to do all the good I can, in all the ways I can, for all the people I can, for as long as I can. A lover of people, Sarah was also a devoted “Prayer Warrior,” interceding on behalf of anyone in need. In her spare time, she enjoyed crafts. She will be remembered as a Pillar of Strength, Faith and Love. Her great example left a wonderful legacy to her family and friends. Her goal in life was to love her family enough that it would be passed on for generations to come and to shine the light of Jesus Christ to others. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Don Phillip Brannan, and her parents, Cleo Niles and Reba Louise (Long) Williams. She is survived by her husband, James Michael Connors of Jacksonville; daughter, Kathy Lasavage, and her husband, Peter, of St. Augustine; Sarah’s son, Russell Kenneth Brannan of Jacksonville; and grandchildren, Gerald R. Cotton IV, Lauren V. Cotton and Gloria E. Cotton. A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 13, 2021 at West Meadows Baptist Church in Jacksonville, with Dr. Bruce Armstrong officiating. A visitation, beginning at 10:00 a.m., will precede the service. Interment will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, March 15, 2021, at Jacksonville National Cemetery. St. Johns Family Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

Sarah Lorraine Connors

December 27, 1947 - March 3, 2021