- Date Of Birth: March 1, 1914
- Date Of Death: March 20, 2015
- State: Connecticut
Florence Niedelman Shedroff, age 101, widow of David Shedroff, of Williamsport, MD and formerly of Colchester and Bayside, NY, passed away on March 20th, 2015 at Homewood’s Health Care Center in Williamsport.
She is survived by her daughter, Alma Cooper of Falling Waters, WV; two granddaughters; Marcia Cooper of New York City and Roslyn McGrath of Marquette, MI; grandsons-in-law, Preston Gumberich and Kevin McGrath; and nephews from the Shedroff and Niedelman families.
Florence was born on February 28th, 1914 in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and was raised in the Bronx and at her family’s summer home in Colchester, CT. She graduated from NYU with a B.S. in Journalism, and in 1935 married David Shedroff from Colchester, who was also a teacher and principal of the Colchester Elementary School.
Florence was actively involved in the Colchester community in the 1940’s. She worked on the Ration Board, was elected to the position of Town Clerk and also wrote a column on Colchester news for The Norwich Bulletin.
In 1949, she and her family moved to Bayside, New York, where she held administrative positions in publishing for many years. She retired in 1984 and continued to live in Bayside until moving in 2008 to Homewood’s Assisted Living facility in Williamsport, MD.
Florence enjoyed traveling and pursuing her hobbies of knitting and sewing. Almost until the time that she passed away, she was still reading The Washington Post every day.
