The Cucura family started with Stefan Cucura, who was born in Galicia (Eastern Europe) on November 18th, 1889. He sailed to America on December 11th, 1906 aboard the ship Rhein/Susquehanna.

Alice Marie Leffler was born in Zanesville, Muskingum, Ohio on Janury 26th, 1927 to Louis "Lew" F. Leffler and Beryle / Edith M. Collins.
Alice generally went by her middle name, "Marie".
She met Joseph Cucura, a soldier in the US Army. 
Marie and Joseph Cucura married on February 5, 1951 in Stroudsberg, and on September 3, 1951 Marie gave birth to twins - Judith Joy Cucura, and Jackie Cucura.