Alexandra "Alice" Freda Sheridan, of 17 Jeffrey Lane, Bloomfield, passed away peacefully in the loving arms of her family on Saturday (January 16, 2010) at Duncaster's Caleb-Hitchcock Rehabilitation Hospital in Bloomfield. She was predeceased by her beloved husband, John J. Sheridan, in December 1989.
Alice was born in Hartford on June 16, 1919 to wonderful parents, Mary (Kazienko) Freda and Pasquale Freda. She grew up in the historic Frog Hollow neighborhood at a time when a brimming city welcomed and housed diligent immigrant families, who were proud to be living the American dream.
Alice graduated from the Lawrence Street Grammar School in 1932, earlier than her classmates and went on to attend the original Hartford Public High School on Hopkins and Broad Streets, graduating in the Class of 1936A at age fifteen, as a National Honor Society scholar. She was highly regarded among her classmates and elected as senior class treasurer. For many years, Alice was active in planning her HPHS class reunions.
In the fall of 1936, Alice entered the newly instituted Saint Joseph College, then only fours years in existence, having been founded by the Sisters of Mercy at the Hamilton Heights MSJA building in 1932. With its recent move to the Asylum Ave. West Hartford campus, Alice's college class was the first graduating Class of 1940 to spend freshmen through senior years on the new campus.
Alice loved her years at St. Joe's and was instrumental in helping to make the college known through her musical theatrical contributions, where she represented SJC in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas throughout New England in the summers of 1937 and 1938. It was during her freshman year at Saint Joseph College, when at the encouragement of Sister M. Rosa, the entire college auditioned for roles in an intercollegiate production of The Gondoliers with Wesleyan University, under the direction of Professor Joseph Daltry.
Alice won the lead mezzo-soprano part of Tessa in this Gilbert and Sullivan operetta and charmed audiences with her performance. She was then invited to join a summer stock, equity endorsed Gilbert and Sullivan Company, as the SJC engenue performing in Bar Harbor, Scituate, and on Nantucket, generating publicity in her participation as a Saint Joseph College student.
Alice met the love of her life, John Sheridan, during her junior year in college. They married during World War II as John was preparing for deployment with the 169th Infantry to the War in the Pacific.
Surviving Alice are daughters, Patricia M. Sheridan of Bloomfield, Barbara S. Giarnese and her husband, Paul, of Harwinton, Mary E. Sheridan of Bloomfield and son Thomas M. Sheridan of Bloomfield. She also leaves her loving grandson, Matthew P. Giarnese of Boston, MA. Her granddaughter, Rachel C. Giarnese, predeceased her in 1995. Alice leaves behind her devoted Welsh Corgi, Dickens, who was always at her feet or by her side. Her sisters-in-law also survive Alice, Anita S. Haley of Amston, CT, Mary S. Johnson and Kenneth Johnson of New London, and brother-in-law, Phillip and Carol Sheridan of Sarasota, FLA; many cousins and extensive family in the U.S. as well as in Europe also survive her.
In addition to her devotion to raising her family, Alice was drafted into her teaching career through her involvement in her children's schooling. Always a PTA mom or a volunteer in the main office, she was asked one day to substitute in her son's first grade classroom. Subsequent substitute teaching experiences inspired Alice to pursue her Masters in Education from the U of H in 1964.
She then launched an elementary teaching career with Bloomfield Public Schools that spanned twenty years. She taught kindergarten first at Blue Hills School and then taught at Metacomet School, enriching her students with early readiness skills and a love of music. An accomplished pianist and vocalist, Alice had her kindergarten children dancing and singing their way into joyous learning.
Upon retiring from teaching in 1980, Alice and her husband, John, spent many happy years traveling to Europe, especially to her father's hometown in Italy, where she reunited with her Italian family.
Alice will be remembered by her children as an exceptional mother who wanted the best for her family and spent her life devoted to their education, well being, and happiness in a faith inspired life.
Alexandra/Alice was a gracious, strong and generous mother/teacher who possessed an extraordinary uniqueness of wisdom and talent, tempered with a quiet humility. Her life can be measured simply by her love of family, devotion to her faith, and the ease and comfort of her loving smile.
Family and friends are invited to a visitation of Alice's repose at Sacred Heart Church, 26 Wintonbury Avenue, Bloomfield, on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 from 4:00-7:00 p.m. A Funeral Mass of Christian Burial in celebration of her life will be held in Sacred Heart Church on Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.
Interment will follow in Mount Saint Benedict Cemetery, Bloomfield.
Published in the Hartford Courant on January 19, 2010.
Alice was born in Hartford on June 16, 1919 to wonderful parents, Mary (Kazienko) Freda and Pasquale Freda. She grew up in the historic Frog Hollow neighborhood at a time when a brimming city welcomed and housed diligent immigrant families, who were proud to be living the American dream.
Alice graduated from the Lawrence Street Grammar School in 1932, earlier than her classmates and went on to attend the original Hartford Public High School on Hopkins and Broad Streets, graduating in the Class of 1936A at age fifteen, as a National Honor Society scholar. She was highly regarded among her classmates and elected as senior class treasurer. For many years, Alice was active in planning her HPHS class reunions.
In the fall of 1936, Alice entered the newly instituted Saint Joseph College, then only fours years in existence, having been founded by the Sisters of Mercy at the Hamilton Heights MSJA building in 1932. With its recent move to the Asylum Ave. West Hartford campus, Alice's college class was the first graduating Class of 1940 to spend freshmen through senior years on the new campus.
Alice loved her years at St. Joe's and was instrumental in helping to make the college known through her musical theatrical contributions, where she represented SJC in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas throughout New England in the summers of 1937 and 1938. It was during her freshman year at Saint Joseph College, when at the encouragement of Sister M. Rosa, the entire college auditioned for roles in an intercollegiate production of The Gondoliers with Wesleyan University, under the direction of Professor Joseph Daltry.
Alice won the lead mezzo-soprano part of Tessa in this Gilbert and Sullivan operetta and charmed audiences with her performance. She was then invited to join a summer stock, equity endorsed Gilbert and Sullivan Company, as the SJC engenue performing in Bar Harbor, Scituate, and on Nantucket, generating publicity in her participation as a Saint Joseph College student.
Alice met the love of her life, John Sheridan, during her junior year in college. They married during World War II as John was preparing for deployment with the 169th Infantry to the War in the Pacific.
Surviving Alice are daughters, Patricia M. Sheridan of Bloomfield, Barbara S. Giarnese and her husband, Paul, of Harwinton, Mary E. Sheridan of Bloomfield and son Thomas M. Sheridan of Bloomfield. She also leaves her loving grandson, Matthew P. Giarnese of Boston, MA. Her granddaughter, Rachel C. Giarnese, predeceased her in 1995. Alice leaves behind her devoted Welsh Corgi, Dickens, who was always at her feet or by her side. Her sisters-in-law also survive Alice, Anita S. Haley of Amston, CT, Mary S. Johnson and Kenneth Johnson of New London, and brother-in-law, Phillip and Carol Sheridan of Sarasota, FLA; many cousins and extensive family in the U.S. as well as in Europe also survive her.
In addition to her devotion to raising her family, Alice was drafted into her teaching career through her involvement in her children's schooling. Always a PTA mom or a volunteer in the main office, she was asked one day to substitute in her son's first grade classroom. Subsequent substitute teaching experiences inspired Alice to pursue her Masters in Education from the U of H in 1964.
She then launched an elementary teaching career with Bloomfield Public Schools that spanned twenty years. She taught kindergarten first at Blue Hills School and then taught at Metacomet School, enriching her students with early readiness skills and a love of music. An accomplished pianist and vocalist, Alice had her kindergarten children dancing and singing their way into joyous learning.
Upon retiring from teaching in 1980, Alice and her husband, John, spent many happy years traveling to Europe, especially to her father's hometown in Italy, where she reunited with her Italian family.
Alice will be remembered by her children as an exceptional mother who wanted the best for her family and spent her life devoted to their education, well being, and happiness in a faith inspired life.
Alexandra/Alice was a gracious, strong and generous mother/teacher who possessed an extraordinary uniqueness of wisdom and talent, tempered with a quiet humility. Her life can be measured simply by her love of family, devotion to her faith, and the ease and comfort of her loving smile.
Family and friends are invited to a visitation of Alice's repose at Sacred Heart Church, 26 Wintonbury Avenue, Bloomfield, on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 from 4:00-7:00 p.m. A Funeral Mass of Christian Burial in celebration of her life will be held in Sacred Heart Church on Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.
Interment will follow in Mount Saint Benedict Cemetery, Bloomfield.
Published in the Hartford Courant on January 19, 2010.
Alexandra "Alice" Freda Sheridan, of 17 Jeffrey Lane, Bloomfield, passed away peacefully in the loving arms of her family on Saturday (January 16, 2010) at Duncaster's Caleb-Hitchcock Rehabilitation Hospital in Bloomfield. She was predeceased by her beloved husband, John J. Sheridan, in December 1989.
Alice was born in Hartford on June 16, 1919 to wonderful parents, Mary (Kazienko) Freda and Pasquale Freda. She grew up in the historic Frog Hollow neighborhood at a time when a brimming city welcomed and housed diligent immigrant families, who were proud to be living the American dream.
Alice graduated from the Lawrence Street Grammar School in 1932, earlier than her classmates and went on to attend the original Hartford Public High School on Hopkins and Broad Streets, graduating in the Class of 1936A at age fifteen, as a National Honor Society scholar. She was highly regarded among her classmates and elected as senior class treasurer. For many years, Alice was active in planning her HPHS class reunions.
In the fall of 1936, Alice entered the newly instituted Saint Joseph College, then only fours years in existence, having been founded by the Sisters of Mercy at the Hamilton Heights MSJA building in 1932. With its recent move to the Asylum Ave. West Hartford campus, Alice's college class was the first graduating Class of 1940 to spend freshmen through senior years on the new campus.
Alice loved her years at St. Joe's and was instrumental in helping to make the college known through her musical theatrical contributions, where she represented SJC in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas throughout New England in the summers of 1937 and 1938. It was during her freshman year at Saint Joseph College, when at the encouragement of Sister M. Rosa, the entire college auditioned for roles in an intercollegiate production of The Gondoliers with Wesleyan University, under the direction of Professor Joseph Daltry.
Alice won the lead mezzo-soprano part of Tessa in this Gilbert and Sullivan operetta and charmed audiences with her performance. She was then invited to join a summer stock, equity endorsed Gilbert and Sullivan Company, as the SJC engenue performing in Bar Harbor, Scituate, and on Nantucket, generating publicity in her participation as a Saint Joseph College student.
Alice met the love of her life, John Sheridan, during her junior year in college. They married during World War II as John was preparing for deployment with the 169th Infantry to the War in the Pacific.
Surviving Alice are daughters, Patricia M. Sheridan of Bloomfield, Barbara S. Giarnese and her husband, Paul, of Harwinton, Mary E. Sheridan of Bloomfield and son Thomas M. Sheridan of Bloomfield. She also leaves her loving grandson, Matthew P. Giarnese of Boston, MA. Her granddaughter, Rachel C. Giarnese, predeceased her in 1995. Alice leaves behind her devoted Welsh Corgi, Dickens, who was always at her feet or by her side. Her sisters-in-law also survive Alice, Anita S. Haley of Amston, CT, Mary S. Johnson and Kenneth Johnson of New London, and brother-in-law, Phillip and Carol Sheridan of Sarasota, FLA; many cousins and extensive family in the U.S. as well as in Europe also survive her.
In addition to her devotion to raising her family, Alice was drafted into her teaching career through her involvement in her children's schooling. Always a PTA mom or a volunteer in the main office, she was asked one day to substitute in her son's first grade classroom. Subsequent substitute teaching experiences inspired Alice to pursue her Masters in Education from the U of H in 1964.
She then launched an elementary teaching career with Bloomfield Public Schools that spanned twenty years. She taught kindergarten first at Blue Hills School and then taught at Metacomet School, enriching her students with early readiness skills and a love of music. An accomplished pianist and vocalist, Alice had her kindergarten children dancing and singing their way into joyous learning.
Upon retiring from teaching in 1980, Alice and her husband, John, spent many happy years traveling to Europe, especially to her father's hometown in Italy, where she reunited with her Italian family.
Alice will be remembered by her children as an exceptional mother who wanted the best for her family and spent her life devoted to their education, well being, and happiness in a faith inspired life.
Alexandra/Alice was a gracious, strong and generous mother/teacher who possessed an extraordinary uniqueness of wisdom and talent, tempered with a quiet humility. Her life can be measured simply by her love of family, devotion to her faith, and the ease and comfort of her loving smile.
Family and friends are invited to a visitation of Alice's repose at Sacred Heart Church, 26 Wintonbury Avenue, Bloomfield, on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 from 4:00-7:00 p.m. A Funeral Mass of Christian Burial in celebration of her life will be held in Sacred Heart Church on Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.
Interment will follow in Mount Saint Benedict Cemetery, Bloomfield.
Published in the Hartford Courant on January 19, 2010.
Alice was born in Hartford on June 16, 1919 to wonderful parents, Mary (Kazienko) Freda and Pasquale Freda. She grew up in the historic Frog Hollow neighborhood at a time when a brimming city welcomed and housed diligent immigrant families, who were proud to be living the American dream.
Alice graduated from the Lawrence Street Grammar School in 1932, earlier than her classmates and went on to attend the original Hartford Public High School on Hopkins and Broad Streets, graduating in the Class of 1936A at age fifteen, as a National Honor Society scholar. She was highly regarded among her classmates and elected as senior class treasurer. For many years, Alice was active in planning her HPHS class reunions.
In the fall of 1936, Alice entered the newly instituted Saint Joseph College, then only fours years in existence, having been founded by the Sisters of Mercy at the Hamilton Heights MSJA building in 1932. With its recent move to the Asylum Ave. West Hartford campus, Alice's college class was the first graduating Class of 1940 to spend freshmen through senior years on the new campus.
Alice loved her years at St. Joe's and was instrumental in helping to make the college known through her musical theatrical contributions, where she represented SJC in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas throughout New England in the summers of 1937 and 1938. It was during her freshman year at Saint Joseph College, when at the encouragement of Sister M. Rosa, the entire college auditioned for roles in an intercollegiate production of The Gondoliers with Wesleyan University, under the direction of Professor Joseph Daltry.
Alice won the lead mezzo-soprano part of Tessa in this Gilbert and Sullivan operetta and charmed audiences with her performance. She was then invited to join a summer stock, equity endorsed Gilbert and Sullivan Company, as the SJC engenue performing in Bar Harbor, Scituate, and on Nantucket, generating publicity in her participation as a Saint Joseph College student.
Alice met the love of her life, John Sheridan, during her junior year in college. They married during World War II as John was preparing for deployment with the 169th Infantry to the War in the Pacific.
Surviving Alice are daughters, Patricia M. Sheridan of Bloomfield, Barbara S. Giarnese and her husband, Paul, of Harwinton, Mary E. Sheridan of Bloomfield and son Thomas M. Sheridan of Bloomfield. She also leaves her loving grandson, Matthew P. Giarnese of Boston, MA. Her granddaughter, Rachel C. Giarnese, predeceased her in 1995. Alice leaves behind her devoted Welsh Corgi, Dickens, who was always at her feet or by her side. Her sisters-in-law also survive Alice, Anita S. Haley of Amston, CT, Mary S. Johnson and Kenneth Johnson of New London, and brother-in-law, Phillip and Carol Sheridan of Sarasota, FLA; many cousins and extensive family in the U.S. as well as in Europe also survive her.
In addition to her devotion to raising her family, Alice was drafted into her teaching career through her involvement in her children's schooling. Always a PTA mom or a volunteer in the main office, she was asked one day to substitute in her son's first grade classroom. Subsequent substitute teaching experiences inspired Alice to pursue her Masters in Education from the U of H in 1964.
She then launched an elementary teaching career with Bloomfield Public Schools that spanned twenty years. She taught kindergarten first at Blue Hills School and then taught at Metacomet School, enriching her students with early readiness skills and a love of music. An accomplished pianist and vocalist, Alice had her kindergarten children dancing and singing their way into joyous learning.
Upon retiring from teaching in 1980, Alice and her husband, John, spent many happy years traveling to Europe, especially to her father's hometown in Italy, where she reunited with her Italian family.
Alice will be remembered by her children as an exceptional mother who wanted the best for her family and spent her life devoted to their education, well being, and happiness in a faith inspired life.
Alexandra/Alice was a gracious, strong and generous mother/teacher who possessed an extraordinary uniqueness of wisdom and talent, tempered with a quiet humility. Her life can be measured simply by her love of family, devotion to her faith, and the ease and comfort of her loving smile.
Family and friends are invited to a visitation of Alice's repose at Sacred Heart Church, 26 Wintonbury Avenue, Bloomfield, on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 from 4:00-7:00 p.m. A Funeral Mass of Christian Burial in celebration of her life will be held in Sacred Heart Church on Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.
Interment will follow in Mount Saint Benedict Cemetery, Bloomfield.
Published in the Hartford Courant on January 19, 2010.
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