His most successful competitive quartet, All In, was selected twice to sing at the Barbershop Harmony Society International Convention and contest. Brian sang with several different barbershop quartets and choruses, competing at the highest levels. When not pursuing charitable giving or spending time with his family, Brian spent as much time as he could sharing his love of music through barbershop singing. Last year Decomai was the 7th largest receiver of charitable gifts in the world. While no longer able to work and continue to serve on the many boards he had volunteered for in the past, Brian did remain a volunteer board member for the Decamai Foundation which accepts gifts of complex assets on behalf of charities that cannot accept them on their own. Each of these awards honored his dedication to a lifetime of service to the gift planning industry. When Brian was forced to go on permanent disability due to this metastatic cancer diagnosis, he was humbled and honored to be named to the gift planning hall of fame by the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners as well as being named Spirit of A Leader by Cresendo Interactive Inc. in 2012, won the Skystone Partners Award for research in philanthropy. The first of these books, The Philanthropic Planning Companion, published by Wiley & Co. While running Gift Planning Development, Brian co-authored three books with Robert Wahlers. Gift Planning Development has gone on to help facilitate over 1 billion dollars in charitable gifts to benefit non-profits all across the world. Utilizing the skills he developed working for the surrogate court, practicing law, and working for non-profits, he then launched his own business, Gift Planning Development, for the purpose of helping both charities and philanthropists create meaningful charitable legacies. He accomplished this by going to work for non-profits, particularly those involved in higher education, for the next several years. After pursuing several years of private practice in those areas, Brian decided he wanted to help as many people as he could to tie together their estate planning with making a difference in their communities through charitable giving. After he graduated from Cornell University and Notre Dame Law with honors, Brian clerked for the Superior court and the Surrogate’s court in New Jersey, where he developed a love for estate planning and estate administration. When Monte died the sole heirloom that Brian wanted was his dad’s college ring from Rutgers, which he wore proudly in lieu of his own. Later, when Ken was the adult leader for his son Anthony’s venturing crew, Brian, Ken, and Anthony attended Sea Base High adventure camp and Northern Tier adventure camp to attain the very rare scouting high adventure triple crown.īrian’s dad was the first in his family to attend college, putting a premium on the value of higher education.
As scouts, Brian and Ken were able to complete the Philmont High Adventure scout trip. It was especially meaningful to Brian as he was able to earn his Eagle Scout and receive it in the same Court of Honor with his older brother, Ken.
In addition to following his parents lead, Brian also set about his own life of service beginning as a cub scout all the way to completing his Eagle Scout with gold palm in high school.
Congressmen, and ultimately attend law school at the University of Notre Dame. Similarly, his parents were heavily engaged in political causes, leading Brian to study government, intern with two different U.S. As a young man, he observed his parents strong engagement with the Roman Catholic Church which led him to serve as an altar server, cantor, and choir member for much of his life. The on-going theme of Brian’s life was service to others which was reflected in everything that he did. He is survived by his wife, Christine their children, Katherine, Sophia, Holly and Cole Hawk, and Luke his siblings, Nancy Barry, Stephen and Lynn, Lynda and Robert Yelle, and Ken and Christa and many nephews and nieces. He was the fifth and final child of the late Montoro and Loretta (Prinzi) Sagrestano. Sagrestano, JD, 52 NovemMay 28, 2022īrian Mark Sagrestano, 52, most recently of Lancaster, PA lost his 8 year fight with Metastatic Uveal Melanoma on May 28, 2022.īrian was born and raised in Bridgewater, New Jersey.
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