Lauri Morrow Alsaffar
March 18, 1944 ~ November 12, 2024
Born in:
Washington, DC
Resided in:
Bethesda, MD
Lauri Alsaffar, 80, of Bethesda, Maryland, passed away on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 under hospice care, surrounded by family.
She was predeceased by her husbands, Bruce Morrow (1997) and Adrian Alsaffar (2024). She is survived by her son Scott Morrow (Jen) and daughter Melanie Lutz (Rodney); and four grandchildren, Peyton, Ethan, Tori and Tess. She also leaves behind two step-children, Heyder Alsaffar (Amy) and Cynthia O’Mahony (Sean) and seven step-children.
In addition, she is survived by sisters, Merrily Pierce (John) and Deborah Paul (George) and brother Steven Morris (Diane), as well as nieces, one nephew, and a great niece and great nephew.
Lauri graduated from Connecticut College in 1966 with a BA in European History and received an MSW from Catholic University in 1983. She had a private practice in clinical social work for 40 years in Rockville and Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Services will be held on Saturday, Novemeber 16, 2024 at 11:00 AM at the Money & King Funeral Home, 171 W. Maple Ave., Vienna, Va.
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Memorial Service: November 16, 2024 11:00 am
Money and King Funeral Home
171 W. Maple Ave.
Vienna, VA 22180
703-938-7440
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I was a patient of Lauri’s for twenty years, and we got to know each other very well. She was a huge positive impact on my life, and I will always be grateful for everything that she did for me. I lost touch with her over the last several years and only recently learned of her passing. I’m certain that she touched so many lives in the same wonderful way that she touched mine. She was a bright light in a world that has too few. She will very much be missed
I was a client of Lauri’s for the better part of 28 years. She knew me inside and out. Often I would enter her office overwhelmed with thoughts, guilt, other unsavory feelings. Within a short time, Lauri helped me gain perspective. She helped me find the ground under my feet.
Lauri and I shared and laughed a lot. During covid, before she had to close her practice, we’d meet outside. It was glorious.
She taught me so much about life and helped me be a better mom, wife, friend, daughter, sister. She taught me self-respect.
And so much more.
I did not know of Lauri’s death, as we lost touch around 2022. I will be forever sorry for that.
When I told her she reminded me of Diane Keaton, she was not surprised, having heard that many times she said. Keaton’s death was the force that drove me to search for Lauri. I just didn’t have the courage to do so before this.
Lauri did share with me how much she adored her family. She hesitated to share too much, but we did become close and actually had a lot in common. So sometimes she’d let me in on how proud she was of her wonderful children and her grandkids who she absolutely adored. When she’d go to visit, she couldn’t help but tell me, I felt. And her eyes would twinkle with that bright smile of hers.
I miss this outstanding, talented, highly intelligent, lady so very much and I know you do too. I will always remember her humor, her laugh (she laughed *at* me and I loved it) and her ability to make me feel human again. I loved her dearly.
My very sincere condolences to you.