Louise Leddy's Obituary
Louise Leddy, 92, of Charleston, Illinois, died peacefully on April 16, 2025. She is survived by sons Michael (Elaine Fine) and Brian (Susie Choi), grandchildren Rachel Raab (Seth Raab) and Benjamin Leddy (Rebecca Mazonson), three great-granddaughters, her niece and nephew, Andrea Allegretta and Richard Juno, their children, and her sister Rose Juno.
After graduating from Bay Ridge High School, Brooklyn, New York, in 1949, Louise went to work in the secretarial pool at General Foods, eventually becoming the secretary to the company president. She later served as an executive secretary at American Cyanamid before leaving work in Manhattan to raise a family in Brooklyn. She was a fifty-two-year resident of Ridgefield, New Jersey, and shared sixty-one years of marriage with her husband James, who died in 2015.
Louise’s family gives great thanks to the staffs of Heritage Woods, Reflections Memory Care, Hilltop Skilled Nursing, and Transitions Care, who did much to help her in her final years in Charleston.
In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, 322 8th Avenue, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10001.
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