Claire Lois Bosler Goodman

GOODMAN, CLAIRE “KLARI” (BOSLER) died on April 21st in Charlottesville, VA. She was the wife of the late Charles Goodman and Armand S. Waldman. Born in Providence, R.I. on May 16th, 1922, a daughter of the late Lewis and Helen (Cohn) Bosler, she lived in Providence and Warwick before moving to West Palm Beach, FL in l99l and then to Charlottesville in 2012. She was the sister of the late Marjorie Lachman of Silver Spring, MD and Erwin M. Bosler of Cranston, RI. She was a retired teacher, earning her BA from URI and her M.Ed. from RI College. She was a member of the former Temple Beth Israel and organized and ran the Temple Nursery School for 5 years. She later conducted the pilot study pre-school class, for 6 years, for the former Parent’s Council for Retarded Children, now know as ARC. She then worked as a special education pre-school teacher for 20 years for the Warwick School Dept. She was named Warwick Teacher of the Year in 1984. After retiring from the Warwick School Dept. in 1986, she became Director of the Eunice Zaidman pre-school at Temple Am David, in Warwick, RI. She was a member of the East Greenwich and Wickford Art Associations as well as the RI Watercolor Society. She displayed her original watercolor paintings throughout RI. She was also a Life Member of the Touro Association. In Florida she was a member of the Artist’s Guild of the Norton Art Gallery and taught an art class at the Club House in the community where she lived. She is survived by her children, her son, Milton Goodman and her daughter-in law Andrea of Estero, FL; her daughter, Susan Jones of Wellsboro, PA; her son, Howard Goodman of Charlottesville, VA; her step-son, George Goodman of Orlando, FL; her step-daughter, Judith Goodman and her son-in-law Carmine Nobile, of Virginia Beach, VA; 13 Grandchildren, 16 Great Grandchildren and 2 Great-Great Grandchildren. For more information on her life and her art, please visit her website at www.klarigoodman.com A graveside service will be held at the Lincoln Park Cemetery, Warwick, R.I. on Monday, April 25th at 1 P.M. Donations in her memory may be made to your favorite charity.