Claire “Klari” Goodman, 93

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. – Claire “Klari” (Bosler) Goodman died on April 21 in Charlottesville. She was the wife of the late Charles Goodman and Armand S. Waldman. Born in Providence on May 16, 1922, a daughter of the late Lewis and Helen (Cohn) Bosler, she lived in Providence and Warwick before moving to West Palm Beach, Fla., in 1991 and then to Charlottesville in 2012. She was the sister of the late Marjorie Lachman of Silver Spring, Md., and Erwin M. Bosler of Cranston. She was a retired teacher, earning a B.A. from the University of Rhode Island and an M.Ed. from Rhode Island College.

She was a member of the former Temple Beth Israel and organized and ran the temple nursery school for five years. She later conducted the pilot study preschool class for the former Parents Council for mentally challenged Children, now know as ARC, for six years. She then worked as a special education preschool teacher for 20 years for the Warwick School Department. She was named Warwick Teacher of the Year in 1984.

After retiring from the Warwick School Department in 1986, she became Director of the Eunice Zaidman preschool at Temple Am David, in Warwick.

She was a member of the East Greenwich and Wickford Art Associations as well as the R.I. Watercolor Society. She displayed her original watercolor paintings throughout Rhode Island. She was also a life member of the Touro Association.

In Florida she was a member of the Artists’ Guild of the Norton Art Gallery and taught an art class at the Club House in the community where she lived.

She is survived by her son, Milton Goodman and her daughter-in law Andrea of Estero, Fla.; her daughter, Susan Jones of Wellsboro, Pa.; her son, Howard Goodman of Charlottesville; her step-son, George Goodman of Orlando; her step-daughter, Judith Goodman and her son-in-law Carmine Nobile, of Virginia Beach; 13 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

For more information on her life and her art, visit her website at www.klarigoodman.com. 

Donations in her memory may be made to your favorite charity.