Ms. Gabrielle de-Rouchbrune Saulsbury

December 15, 1921 - November 21, 2020

Gabrielle de-Rouchbrune Saulsbury died Nov. 21,2020 at the Peak Health Care of Denton. Gaby was born Dec. 15,1921 at Easton, Md. Hospital. Her parents were Renee Bouziere Saulsbury and Irwin Todd Saulsbury, Jr. Grandparents were Irwin Todd Saulsbury and Mary Rebecca Orrell of Ridgely, Md. And Eugene Bouziere and Gabrielle Louise Besson of Le Havre, France. Gaby graduated from Ridgely Md. High School in 1937 and attended Western Maryland College for two years. The summer after her second year at college she got a summer job at the beach in Atlantic City as a cosmetics demonstrator. It was there that she met her future husband William Leavin co-owner of Hampton Cosmetics. After their wedding Gaby lived in New York City for many years. Will and Gaby loved to travel. Will said that Gaby would leave a “Travel Book “on the coffee table to let him know of their next destination. After Will and his brother sold their business Gaby and Will spent a year abroad travelling to many countries- even to Timbuktu. Gaby pursued a career in acting and later obtained jobs on T.V. Commercials. Years later after the death of her husband, Gaby moved to Easton, while there she taught students interested in an acting career. She later moved to Maple Village in Greensboro, Md. And continued teaching students. Gaby has five nieces: Susan Johnson, Gwen Eskridge, Lisa Gyory, Paige Arnold and Renee Spenser. She has three nephews, Todd Cooper, David Griffith and Wayne Irwin Spenser, deceased. Two sisters, Rebecca Griffith and Jacqueline Spenser are deceased. Renee Saulsbury Koehler, her sister, lives near Annapolis, Md. Gaby had many friends during her lifetime of almost ninety-nine years, to mention a few, Mary Angelo Martin of Greensboro and Mary Turkington of Denton. Because of the pandemic, plans for a memorial service are incomplete.