ASU remembers

Sharon Ann Firestone

Ross-Blakely Law Library

October 27, 2008

Sharon Ann Firestone, 70, died on October 27, 2008. She earned a B.A. in Spanish and a Masters of Library Science from the University of Washington. Later, she received a M.A. and a Ph.D. in History at ASU. She was employed as a librarian at the Memorial University of Newfoundland Library in St. John's, Newfoundland, the Detroit Public Library, and the Ross-Blakely Law Library at ASU. Sharon accompanied her husband on anthropological studies of villages in Newfoundland and Devon, England. Her research in Newfoundland became the material of her Ph.D. on the lives of women in the fishing community of Savage Cove, Newfoundland. Sharon is survived by her husband, Melvin M. Firestone, two sons, two grandsons.