Donna L. Sabbagh, of Westbury, died on Nov. 28, 2001, in her 45th year. She was a member of Ironworkers Local #'s 40, 361, 417. Wife of Brian J. Daughter of the late Donald and Ruth Miller. Sister of Darra Andretta and Denise Kocarnik. Daughter-in-law of Sheila and the late Joseph Sabbagh. Aunt of Matthew and Adriana Andretta. The family was cared for by the Thomas F. Dalton Funeral Home, Levittown Chapel. Interment Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Isabell C. Parker (nee Carmody), of Westbury, died on Dec. 4, 2001. Wife of Edmond J. Mother of Eugene and Clare Parker, Edmond and Barbara Parker, Michael and Claudia Parker, Kathleen and Robert Snell, Karen and Ron Hagner and Janet and Michael Shalley. Grandmother of 17. Sister of Agnes Lynch and John Carmody. Arrangements were made by the Donohue Cecere Funeral Home, Westbury. Funeral Mass at St. Brigid's RC Church. Interment St. Charles Cemetery. Maud A. Davis, of Westbury, died on Dec. 4, 2001. Mother of Patricia A. McGee (Dwight) and Michael R. Davis. Sister of Joan Jackson, Myrtle Boyd, Roland W. Davis (Priscilla), Carol Penalver (Philip) and Geraldine Davis. Grandmother of four. Great-grandmother of 12. Arrangements were made by the Donohue Cecere Funeral Home, Westbury. Religious service. Interment Pinelawn Memorial Park.

Kayla Kazahn Zalk of Newton, MA passed away on Nov. 16, 2001 after a valiant battle against lung cancer. She was 70 years old and was born in t he Bronx on Oct. 21, 1931. She is survived by her son, Jason of Newton, her sister, Sandra Kazahn Masur of New York City and her nephews, Josh and Ted Masur of Mountain View and San Francisco, CA respectively. She was also the mother of the late Mara Zalk, a graduate of Newton North High School and the Long Island BOCES Center for the Arts.

Ms. Zalk was the founder and director of the Greater Westbury Arts Center in Westbury, which established a community based curriculum of art, pottery, dance and music training for children and adults. She was a renowned teacher of movement, choreography, movement analysis, labanotation and dance. At her death, she was a faculty member at the Boston Conservatory. She had previously been on faculty at universities and arts centers with preeminent programs in her areas of expertise. These included the University of California, San Diego, New York University School of Fine Arts, SUNY at Purchase, and the American Dance Festival in New London, CT, Lesley University, the Longly School and Brandeis University. In her teaching she integrated many techniques of body training and movement analysis for use by dancers, actors and choreographers including Alexander technique, Feldernkrais, Pilates and Bartenieff Fundamentals as well as insights from the work of Buckminster Fuller. She was an accomplished potter and teacher of pottery, most recently at the Needham, MA pottery. Her broad training in the arts and her articulate commentary made her a regular guest on an early talk show in NYC hosted by the Amazing Randy. Her charisma and depth and breadth of knowledge combined to totally engage students and colleagues.

As a child, she was introduced to modern and folk dance by Edith Segal. After receiving her BA from the University of Michigan, she undertook graduate studies at Columbia University and dance training with pioneers of modern dance, Doris Humphrey and Jose Limon and movement analysis with Irmgard Bartenieff. She was certified as a movement analyst by the Labanotation Institute of Movement Studies. She served as president of the American Dance Guild, and board member of the Labanotation Institute of Movement Studies. She was an active member of CORD, supporting research in dance ethnology.

In her fight against cancer she turned to all the tools she had available including the traditional and the conventional, the "scientific" and the faith-based, the eastern and western traditions. She acknowledged the dreadful reality of this disease but continued to live life at its fullest.

She had an incredible vitality, creativity, ebullience and passions. Her passions included people and an insatiable learning in all areas of knowledge. Colleagues, students and acquaintances all talk about her charisma, courage, electricity, ability to concentrate on and interact intensely with each person in her orbit.

Donation in her memory may be made to Compassionate Friends, 1791 Main Street, Concord, MA 01742, a group that helps families who have lost children find a positive resolution of their grief.