In Memory: April Pulley Sayre

Photo courtesy of Jeff Sayre.

By Stephani Martinell Eaton

April Pulley Sayre, award-winning author and photo-illustrator died Nov. 6 in South Bend, Indiana after a battle with advanced metastatic breast cancer. She was 55.

April & Jeff at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in September 2019. Photo courtesy of Jeff Sayre.

Much of April’s work focused on natural history, and because of her passion for conservation, she requested a green burial. Her husband, Jeff Sayre writes, “She was interre...