Saturday, November 5, 2022
My first memory of Ann was of her looking around St Pauls when she first came over to teach in the UK in the late 1990s. She asked us could she teach the children about Roald Dahl! She then began many happy years with us inspiring the children with her love of literature and poetry, coaching the football team and always willing to lend a hand. She worshipped at our church and tonight we will be praying for her. She became friends outside school with several of us and was always ready for an ‘adventure’, be it playing golf in the rain, dressing up for a sing-along ‘Sound of Music’, cheering for Saracens at Twickenham. She became a good friend to my family, bringing peanut butter over each Autumn for my grandson and sharing her Canadian children’s books, she lent my daughter a bike so she could compete in her first Triathlon, she always came to the concerts of my musician daughter. When she left St Pauls, she taught in several other local schools, where she again made good friends and was generous in her time and talents. She was fiercely patriotic of Canada, but also loved the UK and all its traditions and bizarre politics! She will be greatly missed, but will live on in all the memories we have of her.