Mothers Day 2025: Remembering Anne...

Reflecting upon your Mom at this time of year, is always a treasure of memories.

Here are a wonderful few that decades later, stand out in my life about Anne:

• Anne was an only child and maybe that is why she always seemed so capable and reliable all the time. We were always on time for our car pool to swim practice each week. Usually that meant picking up 4 of us from the same neighborhood after school and taking us downtown to the “Youth Building” for a few hour workout.
• Anne was a very social lady, and met Dad at a Northwestern University, Pi Phi Sorority party. The social party gal continued to have dinner parties and I remember the late night tunes in bed upstairs until 11:00PM on Fridays or Saturdays while their friends danced the night away to “Petula Clarks” “Downtown” and other mid-sixties bands.
• Anne was a gifted Artist and through her life spent countless hours in the basement “Art Studio” of our childhood homes painting large canvas oil abstracts and hundreds of others that were multimedia. They still adorn our and our kids places over fire places and in bedrooms. One of the favorites is a 48”x48” multi-Media Oil named “Dream Sleep” she painted in 1996.

Anne married Richard in 1955 and a year later was off base at Parris Island and was still at his side when she passed away in 2014.

She was devoted to him through thick and thin and especially to her four kids. As the oldest son, thinking about my Mother explains so much, about how we all learned and what was so important in life.

• Anne sent us off to Sunday School at an early age to St. Thomas Episcopal to develop our faith in Jesus and turn us towards serving others and fully understanding the Ten Commandments.
• Anne sent us off to six week “Summer Camps” that were hours away in Wisconsin and Northern Michigan were we could learn new skills such as, Sailing, Horseback Riding, Water Skiing, Riflery, Archery, Camping and Canoeing.
• Anne supported us getting out of our “Small Town” to go to college in another state. University of Colorado was a wonderful choice that helped with a real passion for Snow Ski Racing. A year later, my parents relocated to Teton Village, Wyoming. Perfect.
• Anne was also an excellent snow skier and will never forget the times we talked about life on the Rendezvous Mountain Tram and the lifts to the top of Apres Vous Mountain. She chased me down the “Blue” runs there yet they were almost Teton “Black” runs!

A Mom that loved us, looked after me, protected me, taught me, gave me the support to grow up with new Skills, Faith, Integrity and Ambition to be a Father myself and learn first hand what being a Mother is really all about. Anne was just one Mom, who does it all for her children.

Thank you to all the wonderful and couragous Moms on this day of celebration, “Mothers Day 2025”…