Sally Berg (nee Jacobs) of Margate, NJ, passed away on October 2, 2022, at the age of 85 at Lions Gate in Vorhees, NJ, following a battle with dementia. A native Philadelphian, she grew up in Logan and went to Olney High School and Temple University, where she was one of the few women of her era to earn a B.A. in business. She taught science and occasionally business and French at Samuel Fels Junior High School in the Northeast for twenty-five years. She helped the school transition to a senior high school and then served as vice-principal at the new senior high school. While teaching full time, she went back to Temple and earned a Master’s in Education. After thirty-two years in the Philadelphia school system, she took early retirement and started her own business designing and selling women’s clothing.
She married Charles J. Berg in 1961, and they lived in Germantown, East Oak Lane, and Rydal. In the late 1980’s, they bought a shore house in Margate, and they moved down the shore full time in 2011. At the shore, she enjoyed socializing with friends, playing bridge, and going to the casinos with Charles and their friends for dinner and shows. She also liked a little gambling from time to time. Throughout their marriage, she and Charles enjoyed dining out, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Temple basketball, European travel, and Caribbean cruises. Later in life, she developed a taste for adventure travel, going on expeditions like an African safari, a European river cruise, and a trip to Burma well into her 70’s and even into her early 80’s.
She had sewed many of her own clothes when she was younger, and so, when the pandemic hit, brought her sewing machine out of storage and made masks for two New Jersey health care facilities.
Sally is survived by her husband Charles, her son, David J. Berg, and her daughter in law, Dr. Martha K. Badger. She was predeceased by a brother, Michael Jacobs. Family and friends are invited to a Graveside Service on October 7, 2022, 11:00 am, at Beth Kehillah Cemetery, Egg Harbor Township, NJ 08234.