Grace (Infantino) Coward

(Editor's note. The following was received from Grace on Jan 09, 2007)

2007 update . After the death of my husband Jim in 1996, I became active in community theater and have performed on stage in Inherit The Wind and Once Upon A Mattress as well as in several musical revues. I also started taking art classes and work primarily in pastel and acrylic. Some of my paintings have been shown in local libraries. I have managed to do a little traveling and have been to England, France and Italy. I am hoping to make another trip to Italy and finally visit Calabria where my parents were from. My daughter, Elizabeth Coward Cannon, still teaches French and Spanish in the Chappaqua school system; and until recently when she began teaching in the new Seven Bridges Middle School, she taught at the same old Horace Greeley High School building we all graduated from. It became the Robert E. Bell Middle School when the new high school was built. Liz and her husband Kevin live in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. only a couple of miles away from me.

1997 recap. Daughter Elisabeth Coward Flores teaches languages at the Robert E Bell School. Grace is retired.

1982 recap. Grace went to Berkeley School and then worked as Secretary to the Director of Social Services at Northern Westchester Hospital for 6 Years. She married Jim in '61. In '63 Jim started his own business and Grace worked with him for 8 yrs until the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth, who plays the viola and piano and is a gifted writer of stories and poems. Grace is retired and Jim is co-owner of a commuter parking lot and a restaurant, bar, nightclub named “Our Place”. They have lived in Croton-on-Hudson for 21 yrs. Grace enjoys staying at home, gardening and puttering around. She is a volunteer for school activities and works with young children in the reading center.