At a very young age, Anne moved to Parkersburg, West Virginia and was educated in their public school system. During her youth she developed a love for tennis, the theatrical stage and lifelong friends. Anne began her post-secondary education at Fairmont State College as a theater arts major. While at Marshall Anne was an active member of the Tri Sigma sorority. Mark never stood a chance. Anne and Mark eloped during the spring of her senior year in to a little Episcopal church in Tazewell Virginia.
To her dismay, they offered and she accepted a full-time position as a speech therapist. In late , Anne and her family relocated to Narragansett, Rhode Island. She loved the former not so much the latter.
She prepared an entire dinner from soup to nuts for them and their guests and they ate on a tablecloth spread out on the floor.
It was magical Thanksgiving meal. While in Jacksonville Anne began her lifelong pursuit of rescuing stray dogs with the addition of Waffle to their growing family. Anne returned to the classroom as a Speech Therapist and made some of the best friends of her life. But the beautiful beaches in Jacksonville were part of her life and she spent many hours with friends sipping bourbon and Tab yuck and playing with her dogs and children.
She once dropped Mark off at the pier to leave on a Navy deployment but left in a hurry to make a sale at the local Mall. Anne not wanting to waste any time delivered Blair 40 minutes after arriving at the hospital. She always blamed Mark getting home late after Happy Hour with his Navy buddies for her late arrival at the hospital. In Mark left the Navy and the family relocated to Beaumont. Why Beaumont,? After a couple of years, she got tired of being a circuit rider going from school to school so she went to Lamar University and got certified in Special Education.
