Marie F Jeffers

Arrangements under the direction of Casey McCallum Rice South Shore Funeral Home, Staten Island, NY.STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Former Eltingville resident Marie Frieda Jeffers, 96, of Jacksonville, Fla., a retired school aide, claims adjuster and volunteer, died Aug. 8 in Avante Villa in Jacksonville Beach.

She was born Marie Frieda Maydick in Stapleton, and graduated from Curtis High School in 1936.

She remained a resident of Stapleton until 1957, when she moved to Eltingville. She later settled in Jacksonville.

A homemaker, she worked as a Western Union teletype operator in St. George during World War II.

Mrs. Jeffers worked for more than 15 years as a claims adjuster at Allstate, New Dorp. She later worked part-time as a school aide at PS 55 in Eltingville.

Mrs. Jeffers was active in her children's lives, serving as past president of both the St. Clare's Mother's Club, Great Kills, and the St. John Baptist de la Salle Mother's Club, Stapleton, where she also was a Brownie troop leader.

In her leisure time, she enjoyed solving jigsaw puzzles and reading. She also enjoyed traveling, taking trips to Atlantic City and playing gin rummy with her husband, James.

She was a member of the Prince's Bay Women's Club and the Loyal Order of Moose Women's Club.

Her husband of 56 years, James, died in 1997.

She is survived by her three daughters, Marie Molloy, Dorothy Molloy and Patricia Jeffers; two sisters, Dorothy O'Shaughnessy and Frances Taylor; six grandchildren, and six great grandchildren.

The funeral will be Saturday from the Casey McCallum Rice South Shore Funeral Home, with a mass at 9:45 a.m. in St. Clare's R.C. Church, both Great Kills. Burial will follow in Resurrection Cemetery. Pleasant Plains.