ARTHUR D. CROFT
RUMSON
Thursday, July 31, 2008
The Jersey Journal
Mass for Arthur D. Croft,
93, formerly of West New York, will be tomorrow at 10
a.m. at Holy Cross Church, Rumson. He died Tuesday at
Care One of King James Care Center, Navesink.
Born in Union Hill, he grew up in Edgewater and lived in
West New York, Westwood and Jackson before moving to
Rumson.
Croft was an accountant for the Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey for 32 years. He retired in 1977.
He was an Army veteran of World War II, serving from
1942 to 1945, and serving in New Guinea and the
Philippines. He left the service as a master sergeant
and was awarded a Bronze Star.
He was a former communicant of St. Aloysius Church,
Jackson, and currently was a communicant of Holy Cross
Church. He was a member of the Holy Name Society of St.
Joseph of the Palisades Church, West New York.
He was active with the Boy Scouts of America.
Surviving are his wife, Mary G.; two sons, Donald, and
his wife, Janice, and Walter, and his wife Rosemary; two
daughters, Mary Croft and Elizabeth Croft; three
grandchildren, Christopher, and his wife Jaime, Jennifer
Lehman, and her husband Jeff, and Vanessa Croft.
Thompson Memorial Home, Red Bank, is in charge.
Published in The Jersey Journal on 7/31/2008
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