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6 p.m., June 6, 2020
A remembrance for Geraldine "Jeri" Sullivan-Carlile, a 1990 graduate of the University of Arizona School of Journalism, will be held Saturday, June 6, at 6 p.m. near downtown Tucson.
Jeri, 76, died Feb. 14. She received her J-degree after working as a journalist at the Tucson Citizen and having three children.
Her children, Tim, Jim and Lorrie, will host a remembrance at Ashley Park, near Jeri's home in Armory Park del Sol, a few blocks south of Broadway, east of Third Avenue, between 13th and 16th streets. The small park, part of the housing development, is located next to the community mailboxes at Third Avenue.
The family will have a couple of tables set up offering beer and wine, and displaying photos of Jeri and her family, and some of her hundreds of collectible penguins — offered to attendees as remembrances.
Alumna Sheryl Kornman, her friend and a former Citizen reporter, said: "Jeri went from writing about how to cook a Thanksgiving turkey for the women’s section (where I met her) to the business section and later was the communications chief for an electricity co-op in southern Arizona. She lived among the Navajo and Hopi for a time, after leaving the Citizen, with her family while her first husband worked for the federal government as a small animal specialist. She researched her family’s genealogy and compiled hundreds of pages of data. Her father was a Tucson Police officer who directed traffic downtown. She was a self-made success."
Jeri is a Tucson High grad who met regularly with some of her former classmates.