Born September 30, 1955 in Lowville, NY, died September 26, 2017 in Rochester, NY. She is predeceased by her father, Louis Mihalyi; brothers, Mark and Skip. Sue is survived by her beloved partner, Torie Gregory; mother, Bernice Mihalyi; sisters, Sherry (Mike) and Karen (Dik); brother, Dale (Janet); nieces, Cora, Willa, Paige and Dacari (Michael); and nephews, Josh, Tanner and T.J.
Sue studied at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, NY. Sue worked with and/or helped create many organizations such as: Atlantic States Legal Foundation, Syracuse Community Choir, Sierra Club, Rochester Roots, Politics of Food, Alliance for Democracy, NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, Great Lakes United Board and many more. She created her own catering business, Eclectic Café.
Sue was a renaissance woman. Smart, organized and compassionate, she could sing an aria, make a gourmet meal for hundreds, facilitate a meeting, grow beautiful vegetables…and hold it all in a vision for a just world. She believed in recycling, finding good deals and saving things! She used what was available to create beauty. In Sue’s neighborhood, a reclaimed lot became a paradise of flowers, paths, places to sit, all built with reused bricks, discarded plants and found objects. A house, once abandoned, became a lovely home: delicious meals were created from the garden, quilts sewn from found scraps and lost cats found a sanctuary and became family.
Food and music wove through her work and her love for the earth grounded her. We are lucky that she moved among us, the world is a better place because of her.
There will be two services: Sunday October 8th, 3pm at the Glenfield United Methodist Church and Saturday, October 14th, 2 pm at the Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, NY. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Sue’s name to the Syracuse Community Choir at 601 Allen St. Syracuse, 13210 or syracusecommunitychoir.org or Sierra Club Rochester Regional Group at P.O. Box10518 Rochester, NY 14610 or http://www.sierraclub.org/atlantic/rochester.
Please bring flowers from your garden or fall decorations or symbols to place on the altar for the service.