Lucy Crifasi: To Be So
Loved
Everybody
loved Lucy.
And why not? Lucy Crifasi was the kind of woman who
always seemed to have a big smile and time to solve
somebody else's problems. That's basically what she did
as an American Express travel coordinator assigned to the
Marsh & McLennan offices in the World Trade
Center.
Ms. Crifasi, 51, took care of family and friends as
well. In recent months, she took off one day a week to
spend more time with her 85-year-old mother, with whom
she lived in Glendale, Queens.
She loved to travel, and over the last few years she
took her brother, Frank, to London and Antigua. The day
after school ended last year she took her sister, Maria,
a Roman Catholic school principal, to the Caribbean.
"She didn't like going away in the summer because it
was too hot, but it was the only time I could go," Ms.
Crifasi said. "She knew how stressed out I was."
The Crifasi family came to New York from Sicily in
1958. Last year, the whole family went back to visit
Montevago, their hometown. Then the two sisters took a
side trip to Rome, where they said the rosary with the
pope and toured the city. "She made everybody feel very,
very special," said Ms. Crifasi.
Lucy Crifasi was known for her devotion to the singer
Julio Iglesias and for her classy sense of fashion. "Lucy
only had two vices," said her brother, Frank. "Shoes and
pocketbooks."
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