OBITUARY FOR FORMER CROTON RESIDENT CLAIRE CUCCI

Former Croton Welcome Wagon. Additionally, she served as a paid part-time assistant to the chief librarian of the Croton Free Library. She also worked as a Class Mother at the Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School. Along with other mothers she helped inaugurate and support their innovative open classroom program which became a model for other districts. Claire was active in many Croton book clubs one of which was the Dante Club whose members read and studied his Divine Comedy in English and Italian. She and her husband celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary in Croton before moving to Los Angeles in 2018 to be nearer to their children and grandchildren.  READ MORE HERE.