1931
Anne
2022
Anne K. (Keller) Smith
November 26, 1931 — October 9, 2022
Anne Smith Obituary
Anne Keller Smith (Nov. 26, 1931 - Oct. 9, 2022) was born in Rochester, NY, daughter of Elizabeth H. and Clifford H. Keller, and was predeceased by 3 older siblings.
As the granddaughter of a florist growing up on the shore of Lake Ontario, Anne developed a lifelong love of flowers, plants, and the water. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1953, she soon moved to Spain where she learned Spanish and worked for the U.S. Navy at Torrejon, later earning an M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College, teaching at St. Lawrence University, and moving west to pursue a PhD at the University of Colorado, where she met her husband Win. They married in 1965 and moved to New York City, where she taught at City College, NY before settling in Storrs in 1969. She later taught Spanish at ECSU in Willimantic.
Anne was involved in a multitude of community activities, serving as Mansfield’s Assistant Registrar of Voters, on the Northeastern CT Board of Tourism, and for many years as President of the Mansfield League of Women Voters, where she helped establish the annual Know Your Town Fair (now the Downtown Mansfield Festival). She was an active volunteer in many organizations including Planned Parenthood, the World Federalist Association, and the local Trouping Theater, putting on plays in the round for school children. She was also an enthusiastic member of the UConn League playreading group, where her dramatic skills were much appreciated. Anne loved gardening, swimming, canoeing, hiking, attending theater and musical performances, and engaging with new people and places, both at home and when Win’s work took them on sabbaticals and sojourns to other states and countries.
Her warm appreciation for people and nature meant she never came home from a walk without a flower, leaf or feather, or the story of an interesting conversation with someone she’d met.
She will be greatly missed by her husband Winthrop Smith, daughter Sarah Smith of Gloucester MA, much loved nieces, nephews and cousins, and many dear friends.
A memorial celebration followed by reception will be held on Saturday, November 12th at 1:30 pm, at the Storrs Congregational Church.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Anne and Win Smith Fellowship Fund for female graduate students in physics (Fund #22662) by check to the UConn Foundation (2390 Alumni Drive Unit 3206, Storrs, CT 06269), or to the League of Women Voters ( https://www.lwv.org , click “Donate”).
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Anne Keller Smith (Nov. 26, 1931 - Oct. 9, 2022) was born in Rochester, NY, daughter of Elizabeth H. and Clifford H. Keller, and was predeceased by 3 older siblings.
As the granddaughter of a florist growing up on the shore of Lake Ontario, Anne developed a lifelong love of flowers, plants, and the water. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1953, she soon moved to Spain where she learned Spanish and worked for the U.S. Navy at Torrejon, later earning an M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College, teaching at St. Lawrence University, and moving west to pursue a PhD at the University of Colorado, where she met her husband Win. They married in 1965 and moved to New York City, where she taught at City College, NY before settling in Storrs in 1969. She later taught Spanish at ECSU in Willimantic.
Anne was involved in a multitude of community activities, serving as Mansfield’s Assistant Registrar of Voters, on the Northeastern CT Board of Tourism, and for many years as President of the Mansfield League of Women Voters, where she helped establish the annual Know Your Town Fair (now the Downtown Mansfield Festival). She was an active volunteer in many organizations including Planned Parenthood, the World Federalist Association, and the local Trouping Theater, putting on plays in the round for school children. She was also an enthusiastic member of the UConn League playreading group, where her dramatic skills were much appreciated. Anne loved gardening, swimming, canoeing, hiking, attending theater and musical performances, and engaging with new people and places, both at home and when Win’s work took them on sabbaticals and sojourns to other states and countries.
Her warm appreciation for people and nature meant she never came home from a walk without a flower, leaf or feather, or the story of an interesting conversation with someone she’d met.
She will be greatly missed by her husband Winthrop Smith, daughter Sarah Smith of Gloucester MA, much loved nieces, nephews and cousins, and many dear friends.
A memorial celebration followed by reception will be held on Saturday, November 12th at 1:30 pm, at the Storrs Congregational Church.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Anne and Win Smith Fellowship Fund for female graduate students in physics (Fund #22662) by check to the UConn Foundation (2390 Alumni Drive Unit 3206, Storrs, CT 06269), or to the League of Women Voters ( https://www.lwv.org , click “Donate”).
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in memory of Anne K. (Keller) Smith, please visit our floral store.
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