Judith Mikeal Gross *76

Judith Gross, who had lived on Cleveland Lane in Princeton for more than 30 years and taught English as a second language at the Princeton YMCA for many years, died Oct. 8, 2017. She was 76.

Born in West Virginia, she was proud to be a coal miner’s daughter. Gross graduated from Maryville College in Tennessee in 1963, and earned a master’s degree in 1965 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her master’s thesis was on a series of previously undiscovered letters to and from “Mother Jones,” the labor union leader.

With her husband, Graham Gross, she participated in the civil-rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s. After their daughter was born in 1970, the couple attended fewer rallies, sit-ins, and protests. Gross earned a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton in 1976.

After surviving advanced lung cancer for almost three years, she died in Fort Collins, Colo., where her daughter, Rosa, resided. She is also survived by a granddaughter and a brother. Her husband predeceased her in 2015. Services were held at Trinity Church in Princeton, where she supported her daughter’s choral singing and was a devoted member of the Trinity book club.

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