RUTH CROFT, 73, LONGTIME DAILY NEWS STAFF MEMBER.Byline: Holly Andres Staff Writer WOODLAND HILLS - A funeral will be held Thursday for former Daily News employee Ruth Croft, who died Thursday in Woodland Hills. She was 73. Croft, of Northridge, was hired in 1968 as a reporter for the predecessor of the Daily News in Van Nuys. She was an editor for the Neighbors community sections of the Daily News for many years. She also was an assistant city editor and an editor in the Features Department. Croft retired from the paper in December 1990. ``Ruth Croft was one of the first women to work at the Valley News and Green Sheet, now the Daily News. During her long career, she worked as a news reporter, feature writer, assistant city editor and community news editor. She was regarded by several copy editors as the finest pure writer in the newsroom,'' said Rick Quist, executive news editor at the Daily News. Croft was born Aug. 27, 1928, in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . She graduated from Van Nuys High School Van Nuys High School (VNHS) established in 1914, is a high school in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles, California, belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District: District 2. and the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. . Croft was active with the Junior Women's Club Women’s clubs first arose in the United States during the post-civil war period. As a result of increased leisure time due to modern household advances, middle class women had more time to engage in intellectual pursuits. of Northridge, the Los Angeles Press Club, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Valley Alumni, the Prytannean Society, the Van Nuys High School Alumni, the Society of Singers and the Kappa Delta Alumni of UCLA. Croft is survived by three daughters, Holly Rasey, Heather Parks and Kerry Guizzo and six grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. . She was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Heidi Jo Croft, and her husband, Carl L. Croft. A funeral will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Oakwood Memorial Park, 22601 Lassen St., Chatsworth. Donations in her memory may be made to the UCLA Kappa Delta Alumni. |
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