Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Sarah Arnott Ozment was born on Nov. 17, 1933 to Florence Heller Utgaard and Sigurd Utgaard, who were living in Anamoose, North Dakota, where Sigurd was superintendent of the Anamoose school. The family lived in several North Dakota towns, including Aneta and Granville, where Sarah graduated from high school. Sarah was a singer and pianist and went to St. Olaf College where she majored in history and music. She sang in the St. Olaf choir and graduated with honors in history. She spent her college summers working at Many Glacier in Glacier National Park and loved Montana. After college she moved to Lewistown, where she taught vocal music in the Lewistown junior high school and supervised music in K through 12. Because of voice problems, she had to abandon full time teaching and started law school on scholarship at the University of Chicago in 1957.