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Florence Faye Firnhaber (Cudmore) - Class Of 1969 VIEW PROFILE

Florence Faye Firnhaber (Cudmore)

Florence Faye Cudmore, daughter of Major Harold John and Florence Lee (Richey) Cudmore, was born 7 September 1951 in California.  Faye's USAF father was tradgically killed in 1954.  He was interred in San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco County, California.

Faye was interred Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.  Her tombstone was engraved with a sentence from an ode by John Dreydon (1631-1700); "Like a ball of fire the further thrown still with a greater blaze she shown."

Lansing State Journal (Lansing, Michigan) Sunday 27 March 2011

F. FAYE FIRNHABER CUDMORE

BELMONT, MA

Born September 7, 1951 and passed away on March 4, 2011

After graduating from Okemos High School, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan, Faye moved to Boston where she raised her family and taught English as a second language at several colleges in the Boston area.  Following the death of her daughter, Katie, she founded a charitable foundation to provide assistance to children with disabilities and volunteered her time and love for children at the Hole in the Wall Camp, founded by Paul Newman, to give disabled children the opportunity to experience nature.

Surviviors included husband, Wayne Wild, daughters Rebecca and Lily Cudmore, and sister Roberta White all of Belmont, MA; mother Florence Lee Underwood and sister Sandra Firnhaber Montgomery of Okemos, sister Martha Daniels, Ypsilanti, and sister Carrie Daniels of Louisville.  She was preceded in death by her father Harold Firnhaber and daughter, Kathrine Cudmore.

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