Claude Levy

Born in Cairo, Egypt, on September 1, 1937, to banker Jacques Levy and his artist wife Stella (Saltoun) Levy, Claude was an only child. She attended the American University in Cairo and resided with her family in the Middle East until the Suez Conflict of 1956 when, as French Nationals, they were forced to leave Egypt. Along with her parents, Claude relocated to Paris. In France, she worked for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), which resettled Jewish refugees expelled from Arab nations. While living in Paris, she met her former husband, and together with her parents, and his sister and her family, they made their way to Massachusetts where they settled in Brookline.

Claude worked at Harvard University until the birth of her first child. Her young family then moved to Framingham, where she resided for the remainder of her life. When her three daughters were older, Claude fulfilled her life-long dream of working at a newspaper when she joined the Middlesex Daily News as Executive Assistant to the Publisher. She later spent more than two decades at Sage Laboratories in Natick where she was Executive Assistant to the CEO and President and Personnel Manager.

Claude is survived by her beloved children, Carolyn Assa and her daughter Ariana, Michelle Assa and her daughter Sydney, and Jennifer (Assa) Avey and her fiancée Doug Fisher; her devoted son-in-law Michael Wilkins; many cherished cousins; and her treasured fur grandbabies, Bijou, Dash, Daisy, and Max. She was predeceased by her revered son-in-law, Richard O. Avey, and many dear cousins. Claude will forever be remembered for her elegance, grace, love of literature, ballet and theatre, and especially for her impeccable fashion sense.

A Funeral Service will be held at Stanetsky Memorial Chapel, 1668 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02445, on Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:30 AM, and be followed by a Graveside Prayer at Beit Olam East Cemetery, 42 Concord Road, Wayland, MA 01778. The family will be sitting shiva on Thursday from 2-8 PM at the home of Jennifer Avey and Doug Fisher. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Blood Cancer United.