Sara (Sally) Caroline Breithaupt was born in Kitchener, Ontario August 8, 1924 to parents Louis Orville and Sara Caskey. Her siblings were Mary Scott; Louis Paul; and Herbert Caskey. Sally grew up in Kitchener and trained as a nurse at Sick Children's Hospital in Toronto, graduating in 1946. She married Donald Lou Alexander Bastedo in 1947 and the couple lived in Kitchener where Donald was a pediatrician. The couple had children Mary, Paul, Frank and Jamie. Sally was was a founding member of the K-W Knitters Guild in 1986 and later a member of the Weavers and Quilters guilds. Sally and Donald were also supporters of the Stratford Festival, since its beginnings in a tent in 1953, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. She also enjoyed bridge and golf. Sally died May 8, 2014 in Mount Forest, Ontario. Donald died. September 1, 2006.