Charlene Carboni, Ridgefield native

Charlene Stevens Carboni of Newtown, a Ridgefield native and member of the Ridgefield High School Class of 1964, died Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005, at Danbury Hospital. She was 58 years old and the wife of William F. Carboni.

Mrs. Carboni was born in Ridgefield on June 14, 1946, a daughter of Howard and Marion Scofield Stevens. She attended Ridgefield schools and graduated from Ridgefield High School in 1964. She attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and graduated from the Berkeley School in White Plains.

While the Carbonis knew each other at Ridgefield High School, they didn’t begin dating until Mr. Carboni was a junior in college. They were married in 1967 and moved to the Los Angeles area, where Mrs. Carboni worked for several oil companies and for Grey Advertising.

After living in California for 16 years, the couple returned to Connecticut and made their home in Newtown.

Mrs. Carboni enjoyed touring in the couple’s motor home, especially visits to coastal communities from Cape Cod to Florida. Her primary interest, however, was her grandchildren, Kayla and Kyle, said her husband, Bill.

Besides her husband, Mrs. Carboni is survived by a daughter, Jennifer Murphy, and her husband, Karl, and their children, Kayla and Kyle of Woodbury; and a sister, Sally Sossei, and her husband Edward of Bethlehem.

The Rev. Kendall Palladino conducted services Wednesday in the Kane Funeral Home. Burial will take place in Ridgefield Cemetery in the spring.

Memorial contributions may be made to Mrs. Carboni’s favorite charity, the Connecticut Food Bank, P.O. Box 8686, New Haven, CT 06531-0686 or to Regional Hospice of Western CT, Home Healthcare, 405 Main Street, Danbury, CT 06810.