Mrs. Lucette Russo
1970 1975 1979
March 17, 1920 - January 22, 1979
Lucette Marjorie Russo, 58, of Holly Hill, FL, died Monday, January 22, 1979 at Halifax Hospital Medical Center, Daytona Beach, of complications following surgery.
Mrs. Russo was born in New York City. A graduate of Hunter College, she completed her academic studies at Fordham University. A gifted teacher, she was honored by the Paramus New Jersey Board of Education, the National Education Association and the New Jersey Senate when she retired in 1977.
She and her husband had visited here numerous times with her brother John Petit, who died last September, and they moved here from Paramus a little more than a year ago. She was a member of the Ormond Beach Auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wars; the Emblem Club, Ormond Beach; Women of the Moose, Daytona Beach; and a member of Lutheran Church of Christ the King, Ormond Beach.
The Paramus Branch of the American Association of University Women awarded its 1979 "Lucette Russo Mature Woman Incentive Grant" to Mary Bunk of Englewood, mother of four and a trustee of the Vincente K. Tibbs Child Development Center.
Survivors include her widower, Francis E. Russo, Holly Hill; two sons, Major Christopher F. Russo, USAF, Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, and Howard R. Russo, Stow, Massachusetts; one daughter, Mrs. Madeline P. Stockbridge, Chillicothe, Ohio; one sister, Mrs. Thelma M. Petit, Sparta, New Jersey; and five grandchildren.
Entombment in Grace Lutheran Mausoleum, Ormond Beach, FL.