Education
A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Sartor graduated from Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, near Lynchburg, Virginia.
A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Sartor graduated from Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, near Lynchburg, Virginia.
Alton Sartor was also involved in community affairs, including the United Way. He was a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International and a president of the Shreveport Little Theatre. Charles Lane Sartor, younger brother of East. Alton Sartor, Junior., and an officer of the C. West. Lane Company and a geologist, died in 2014.
In the early days of the Barnwell Center, horticulturists and artists fought for dominance.
As one with an interest in both fields, Sartor nevertheless took a strong stand for the artists. At the age of fifteen, Kline was the youngest licensed florist in the state.
In an interview with society columnist Margaret Martin of The Shreveport Times, Sartor"s daughter, Elisabeth "Ibby" Harden, described her mother as "eccentric." The artist also maintained a rock garden in which she divided the "good" snakes from the "bad" snakes, and she refused to allow the killing of a "good" snake. The creature damaged the air conditioning insulation in the home.
The Sartors died five years apart.
The couple is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery on Saint Vincent"s Avenue in Shreveport.
A frequent exhibitor in the International Society of Experimental Artists, Sartor was also a member of the Shreveport Visual Arts Hall of Fame. Prior to her death, she was recognized as a founding member of the Hoover Water Color Society and had a solo retrospective exhibit displayed at the Meadows Museum of Art at the United Methodist-affiliated Centenary College in Shreveport. Emmett Sartor"s cousin, Dayton Waller, was from 1968 to 1972 a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
She was a chairwoman of the Holiday in Dixie Cotillion and a member of the Junior League and the Silver Rose Society.