Saralee Perel, the Cape Cod Times funny and fearless columnist who wrote monthly for 27 years, died Friday at Cape Cod Hospital after a brief illness.
Saralee collected new friends wherever she went and found ways to keep them in her life. She threw a 44th anniversary party for her husband, Bob Daly, and this year, in February, hosted a birthday party for herself at Nonno’s, a new pizzeria in Hyannis. It was packed. She gave out party bags with bubbles, Slinkys and Saralee cakes.
Saralee often chronicled her new friendships in her column that ran on the first Friday of the month.
Saralee pulled no punches in her column, which won nearly every year at New England Newspaper and Press Association (NENPA) in the humor or serious category or both. Her first column appeared in the Cape Cod Times on Sept. 1, 1997.