Deede Ferri, 73, speech therapist for Horry County schools
October 27, 2022
Deann Spector Ferri of Pawleys Island died Oct. 17. She was 73.
Known as Deede, she was born March 18, 1949, in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Victor and Martha Conklin Spector.
She grew up in Falls Church, Va., and earned a bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College in New York and a master’s degree from Bloomsburg State College in Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Ferri worked as a speech therapist in Duchess County, N.Y., before she and her husband moved to Pawleys Island. She then worked for the Horry County School District for over 25 years. She loved the children that she helped.
She was remembered as a joyful and artistic person who liked nothing more than spending time and laughing with those close to her. In addition to enjoying her talent for drawing, she was an avid reader, a life-long learner and a lover of nature and travel.
She is survived by her husband, Kenneth Ferri; her son, Emmett Ferri (Abigail); her grandchildren, Henry and Louisa Ferri; her brother, Bernard Spector; and many other family members and friends.
Her son Bret Hansen Ferri died before her.
A gathering in her honor will be held Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. at Mojo’s Marina Bar and Grill in Murrells Inlet.
