Mildred June Spahr Cuozzo
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2007
Mildred Milly Cuozzo, 89, a homemaker who loved to write poetry, died of complications from a stroke June 3 at Lorien Health Systems
nursing home in Mount Airy. She lived in New Carrollton.
She was born Mildred Spahr in Washington and graduated from Eastern High School.
Mrs. Cuozzo published many poems over the years, including several that ran in The Washington Post. A 1963 Bill Gold column in The Post
highlighted a poem she composed about the new year that read:
Remember all those shopping days . . . That narrowed down to one? . . .
With grim good will we contemplate . . . The fresh supply begun.
Mrs. Cuozzo also loved animals and surrounded herself with cats and dogs as pets.
Her husband, Charles G. Cuozzo, died in 1968.
survivors include two sons, Chuck Cuozzo of New Carrollton and Barry Cuozzo of Monrovia; a sister, Dottie Carpenter of Laurel; three
grandchildren; four great-grand-children; and four step-great-grandchildren.