Sara Ashley Milton

September 3, 1984 – September 17, 2025

Sara Milton of Locust Valley, New York, passed away On September 17, 2025, at the age of 41, after suffering for 3+ years with Long COVID.  She was the beloved daughter of Kristine Baggelaar (Milton), who remained faithfully by her side throughout her heartbreaking, long illness, caring for her with unwavering love and dedication.

Sara is also survived by Donald Milton, dear sister of Katie Milton (Linda Crouse) of Glen Cove, adored niece of Richard Baggelaar (Sandra) of Sonoma, CA and Patricia Ann Milton of Leesburg, VA, cousins, and a compassionate online group of COVID longhaulers who provided a lifeline of unconditional love, encouragement, help and support. Sara also left behind her devoted rescue dog Gracie whom she saved from impending euthanasia, adopted, and held forever closest to her heart.

Sara graduated from the Purnell School, Pottersville, NJ, and attended Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ.

Sara’s family hopes she will be remembered for all the values by which she lived each day: utmost compassion, gentleness, kindness, caring for and helping others, love of and care for animals working many years as a veterinary receptionist and assistant, and her deep devotion to family and her strong network of friends.  She possessed a love for running, hiking and traveling. Her mottoes were, “Do what makes you happy.” “Be a champion, don’t give up. “Kindness matters,”

Sara pursued her passion for photography and was a gifted and accomplished semi-professional photographer who worked hard to hone her talent.  Major corporations, including Starbucks, Stolichnaya, and others, used her work in campaigns. She also created professional filters for photographic use. Aside from landscapes, Sara’s favorite genre was portraiture. She worked with many models that used her exquisite works of photographic art to enhance their professional portfolios. Sara’s warmhearted and encouraging personality brought out the best in her models, as one wrote of her, “You have such a bright, brilliant soul and the most beautiful heart, I bonded with you right away.  I had never modeled before and had no idea what I was doing but you worked your magic making me feel comfortable and you made me feel so comfortable; to create memories I’ll cherish for the rest of my life.  Through it all, I just hope you know the 2 years I lived in San Diego, you had the biggest impact on me, our shoots, I hold close in my heart.”

Sara was stricken by Covid-19 in June 2022.  While she recovered from the initial infection, several months later, she either was re-infected or arguably suffered a vaccine-induced antibody reaction/injury following a 2nd Covid vaccine injection, which put her in bed with the devil. Her symptoms worsened dramatically.  She went from being able to walk short distances and get in a car, to becoming completely bedridden.  All her body systems started failing and she became completely dependent on full-time caregiving.  Her life was reduced to excruciating pain, suffering, intolerance to food and medication, severe mental dysfunction, frustration, anxiety, broken-heartedness, helplessness, isolation, loneliness, despair, feeling of abandonment, powerless,, discouragement, hopelessness.  Most crushing was the lack of recognition, validation, and/or dismissal of LONG Covid—an evil, essentially created for biological warfare—by the medical community and the public at large. This is LONG Covid.  Lives ruined.. Families shattered.  No effective treatments.  No cures.  There are millions of LONG Covid cases across the globe. MILLIONS. Ignored, unrecognized, forgotten. They die, or take their own lives.

The family kindly requests that donations be made in Sara’s memory by honoring her final wishes to help those who are suffering and create a greater awareness and validation of this ravaging, cruel illness and its devastating impact on family and friends, to: 1) Open Medicine Foundation (https://www.OMF.org), considered among the best by Long COVID sufferers due to its advanced trials and research; or, 2) the Bateman Horne Center (htttp://www.batemanhornecenter, with its one purpose: to equip healthcare providers with practical, evidence-informed strategies for treating a historically unrecognized, underserved population of millions worldwide.  We hope you will be part of our community to help.

A private Celebration of Life is planned for later this year.

Final Resting Place:

Roslyn Cemetery

2251 Northern Boulevard

Roslyn, New York

Gravesite Service:

The cremains of Sara Ashley Milton will be interred next to those her mother’s, simultaneously upon the passing of the latter at the Baggelaar family gravesite at Roslyn Cemetery.