Charlotte P. Koons

May 1, 1934 - March 16, 2022

Local Activist, Educator, Charlotte P. Koons Charlotte Paula Koons was a dedicated, devoted teacher at Norwood Avenue elementary school in Northport, New York for 43 years. She led a rich and colorful life and in local theater groups, peace and social justice organizations, the arts and local spiritual communities. Ms. Koons died March 16, at Hospice House in East Northport. She was 87 In the 1960s, she and her late husband, Chester “Silverbear” Koons, helped form the Suffolk County New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU). Ms. Koons was Honored by the Town of Huntington in 2015 as a Distinguished Woman in the Northport Community. Among her achievements were: Seventeen years on the board of the Northport Arts Coalition; volunteering at Hospice House, and as a founding member of Huntington N.O.W., and CODEPINK L.I. Women for Peace. In 2018, she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award, as co-founder of Suffolk Chapter NYCLU. Ms. Koons was a long-time supporter and board member of Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre, and in the last decades of her life, she took to the stage, most notably at the Bare Bones Theater and the Northport One-Act Play Festival. Memorial donations can be made to Visiting Nurse/ Hospice House, East Northport, N.Y.; Huntington Cinema Arts, Centre, or the Suffolk County Chapter of the N.Y. Civil Liberties Union or any of her other organizations.