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Anne Claire Kingston
Anne Claire Kingston of Remsenburg died at the Riverhead Care Center. She was 94.
Ms. Kingston was born in New York City on March 18, 1918, the second of six daughters born to Anna and Andrew Logan. She was a graduate of the Academy of the Daughters of Wisdom, and received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Hunter College.
She married Eugene F. Kingston on December 28, 1940, at the Church of the Holy Child Jesus in Richmond Hill, Queens. During the war years she worked for Sperry Gyroscope, while her husband, a graduate of Fordham Law School, served in the U.S Army in the Pacific Theater.
After teaching in New York City, she moved to Hampton Bays in 1958 and taught second grade in the school district for more than 20 years, while completing her graduate work at Adelphi University. She was also employed as a researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations in Manhattan and taught economics at Southampton College.
After retirement, she moved to Remsenburg. She was an active volunteer in the Dominican Sisters Thrift Store in Hampton Bays, the Church of Immaculate Conception School of Religion in Quiogue and Southampton’s Parrish Art Museum. She enjoyed participating in reading clubs, particularly at the Hampton Bays Library, and exhibiting her watercolor paintings throughout the East End.
Ms. Kingston was predeceased by her husband, Eugene; and four sisters, Dorothy McKenna, Mary Logan, Kathlyn Glaser and Ellyn Rode. She is survived by her sister, Genevieve Fellingham of Hampton Bays; a son, James and his wife Andrea of Remsenburg; four daughters, Jill Bernhart and her husband John of Virginia, Ann Anthony and her husband Michael of Westhampton, Ellen of Westhampton Beach, and Victoria Witkowski and her husband Ronald of North Carolina. She is also survived by 10 grandchildren; Noah, Berkley, Vanessa, Brendan, Brian, Matthew, Molly, Heather, Logan, Christopher; and 14 great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends on Sunday, August 12, from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Follett and Werner Funeral Home in Westhampton Beach. A funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, August 13, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Quiogue. Interment will follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
on Aug 6, 2012