Julie (Claudell) Dagle

Julie Claudell Dagle, the light of her husband’s life, Thomas J. Dagle, passed away peacefully in her sleep with her husband by her side on November 22, 2021. Her seven children, Julie Fisher, Robert Zukas, Susan Eickenhorst, Laurence Zukas, Virginia Criscitelli, Jennifer Dagle, and Lindsey Gionfriddo, surrounded her in her final days, saw to her every need, played her favorite music, and shared hers and their memories. Many of her thirty two grandchildren and great grandchildren hugged her one last time and gave her a final kiss good bye in those last days.

Julie’s love was her family. She always had the time for her children. She helped them with any of their problems or gave them a hug and a kiss or just talked with them on the telephone. Julie was gifted with the art of conversation. She could start a conversation with anyone, even an introvert like her husband of forty four years.

Julie was a self-made woman. She left high school long before graduation to start a family. Eventually, she was employed by the Internal Revenue Service. At the Internal Revenue Service, she became the first Problem Resolution Coordinator in the State of Connecticut and was invited to Washington to assist in writing IRS publications. During her employment, she thanked her children for going to bed early, so that she could finish her homework and graduate high school with her GED. A GED was required by college before she could receive her accounting degree. She graduated at the top of her college class with a 3.9 GPA. Julie left her employment with the IRS in the seventies and purchased a small CPA firm. Through networking and word of mouth, this small beginning became what the IRS refers to as, the largest nonfranchised income tax preparation office in the state of Connecticut.

Julie was an eight year cancer survivor, but was unstoppable. She loved sitting with her clients and chatting, while preparing their tax returns. While she prepared the returns a Cavalier was always by her side, waiting for her gentle touch. COPD finally forced her retirement at the age of eighty.  Chewy, short for Chewbacca, Julie’s rescue dog, now sleeps in her place on the bed and silently awaits her return.

Calling hours will be held on Tuesday November 30th from 12:30 PM to 1:30PM at Doolittle Funeral Home, 14 Old Church Street, Middletown. The funeral liturgy will begin at 1:30PM. Interment will follow in the Swedish Cemetery, in Portland. In lieu of flowers, Julie’s favorite charities were St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000 Dept 142, Memphis, TN 38101-9908 and the ASPCA, P.O. Box 96929, Washington, DC 2007-7127.  To share memories or send condolences, please visit www.doolittlefuneralservice.com.

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