Marie Croft
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Marie Croft died Jan. 2, 2020, at Brandywine Living in Alexandria, Va. She was 81.
Born Aug. 2, 1938, in Peekskill to Bernard and Marie Schottle Fassnacht, she attended Assumption School through ninth grade and graduated from Peekskill High School in 1955.
On Apr. 7, 1956, she married George T. LaDue at Assumption Church in Peekskill, and along with him operated LaDue’s Dairy until his death in January 1974.
Marie was employed by the Hendrick Hudson School District from 1974 to 1978 and the Westchester County Department of Probation from 1978 to 1995. She was a volunteer at Hudson Valley Hospital Center in Cortlandt.
She married William A. Croft on Sept. 15, 1984.
She is survived by three sons, George (Susan) LaDue of New Market, Md., Stephen (Kim) LaDue of Fort Mill, S.C. and Terence LaDue of Cary, N.C.; two daughters, Jean Neale of Hopewell Junction and Ann (James Cahill) Croft of Alexandria, Va.; son-in-law Douglas Ferony of Peekskill; 11 grandchildren, Cynthia (Todd) Striegel, Katherine (Joe) Pancione, Valerie Powell, Jennifer, George, Gregory and Jonathan LaDue, Jeanine Gaskins, Sophia and Darren Ferony and Violet Cahill; and seven great-grandchildren, Trevor, Ryan and Evan Striegel, Semaina and Amias Gaskins, Brooke Powell and Kelly Pancione.
Marie was predeceased by an infant son in September 1969; her husband, George T. LaDue; son-in-law Arthur Neale in December 1989; daughter Joan (LaDue) Ferony in September 1998; and brother Francis Fassnacht in August 2015. Since Marie’s passing, her brother-in-law, William Durr, passed away in April 2020, and her sister, Hilda Durr, passed away in May 2020.
A graveside service will be held on Friday, June 25 at 11 a.m. at Assumption Cemetery in Cortlandt Manor.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to hospice.
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