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Jessica Fitzpatrick

Wed, 02/12/2025 - 21:33

Nov. 13, 1947 - Feb. 6, 2025

Jessica Fitzpatrick, an educational consultant who focused on family literacy, died at home in Calverton last Thursday. Formerly of East Hampton, she was 77.

Her career took her to the Center for Family Resources in Nassau County and the National Center for Family Literacy in Louisville. “As part of that work,” her family said, “she authored a 2009 book detailing successful family literacy programs all over the country for the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.”

Ms. Fitzpatrick’s own education had her studying at Cornell and Hofstra Universities, and she earned a master’s degree from Queens College.

In her life here, she took part in the East End chapter of the Sweet Adelines singing group and Melodies and Memories, a music and theater program at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, and she established a chorus for cancer patients for Fighting Chance, a cancer counseling center in Sag Harbor.

Born in Brooklyn on Nov. 13, 1947, to Harry Buchman and the former Joann Waxman, she grew up in Queens.

On Aug. 25, 1968, she married Patrick Fitzpatrick, who survives, and they had one child, Mike Fitzpatrick, who lives in Floral Park.

She is additionally survived by a sister, Gail Buchman of Florida, and leaves one grandson, one nephew, and five nieces.

Her ashes will be interred at Pinelawn Cemetery in Farmingdale. Memorial donations have been suggested to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, P.O. Box 22324, New York City 10087, or the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 6704, Hagerstown, Md. 21741.

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