Ann Elizabeth Branan Andreu, age 86, passed from this world on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, in Gainesville, Florida, in the embrace of her family.
Ann was born in St. Louis, Missouri. When she was three, her parents and her older brother, Alvord "Al" Walker Branan, moved to a farm in west Jacksonville, Florida, an area needed during World War II for the Naval Auxiliary Air Station Cecil Field. Branan Field Road and the Branan Field Wildlife and Environmental Area carry her family name.
The love of her life was Bernard Michael Andreu, the handsome dark-eyed boy she met in ninth grade. When Mike walked into their St. Paul Catholic School classroom for the first time, their eyes locked. She said they both knew, even without saying so for many years more, that their love would be forever. Later at Bishop Kenny High School, Ann was the head cheerleader and Mike was a multi-sport star, and in 1958, they graduated having been elected prom King and Queen. Ann left for Florida State University, and Mike went to University of Florida, but they reunited at UF after one semester. They would marry, raise a family, and share with their children and grandchildren dreams of possibility: education, travel, families, and contributing to the communities with which they were involved.
In the mid 1960s, they moved to Orange Park, Florida. Mike worked first as a state auditor and then at the University of North Florida, where he served as Comptroller and then Business Manager. With a group of neighborhood women in Orange Park, Florida, Annie created Park Potters, Inc, specializing in functional ceramics as well as potter's wheel art.
When Ann suddenly lost her beloved Mike, age 49, to a staph infection, she took her broken heart and poured it into years of teaching fine arts and art history at St. Johns Country Day School. This wonderful community, as well as her earlier years teaching at Grace Episcopal Day School, provided her exquisite life-long friendships.
After retiring, Ann moved to St. Augustine, Florida, which had been her and Mike's dream. Wanting her family to know something of their ancestral homelands, she took them to Ireland and Minorca. In collaboration with friends, she restored a house at 323 St. George Street and then another at 320 St. George Street. She feared no tool.
One of her more astonishing projects was a solo trip to Alaska in her mid-70s, traveling alone for three weeks by single-passenger plane, train, and once when roads had washed out her bus travel, she rode through the night in the back of a pick-up truck in an effort make the departure time for a ferry.
When Annie was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2020, she decided to forego further medical treatment and moved in with her son in Gainesville, Florida, where she enjoyed sweet last days with family and friends.
Annie leaves behind three living children: Darien Elizabeth Andreu (David Nolan); Michael Gardner Andreu (Anne) and their son Branan; Jeanne-Marie Dennison (John) and their daughters Caitlin and Lauren. She was predeceased by her son-in-law James Robin King (Darien) and her beloved daughter Madeleine "Mandy" Ann Duss (Claude). Mandy, Claude, and their daughters Anne-Elise Duss (Evan) and Emily Marie Stein (Rob) and their son Charlie, provided Annie the beautiful Victorian home at 320 St. George Street, where she lived for 22 years. Annie's brother-in-law Patrick Andreu (Tonia) and sister-in-law Marguerite Andreu are also surviving family.
Annie will be buried next to Mike and her parents, Mary Gardner Branan and Alvord Walker Branan, in Magnolia Cemetery in Orange Park, Florida.
Ann was born in St. Louis, Missouri. When she was three, her parents and her older brother, Alvord "Al" Walker Branan, moved to a farm in west Jacksonville, Florida, an area needed during World War II for the Naval Auxiliary Air Station Cecil Field. Branan Field Road and the Branan Field Wildlife and Environmental Area carry her family name.
The love of her life was Bernard Michael Andreu, the handsome dark-eyed boy she met in ninth grade. When Mike walked into their St. Paul Catholic School classroom for the first time, their eyes locked. She said they both knew, even without saying so for many years more, that their love would be forever. Later at Bishop Kenny High School, Ann was the head cheerleader and Mike was a multi-sport star, and in 1958, they graduated having been elected prom King and Queen. Ann left for Florida State University, and Mike went to University of Florida, but they reunited at UF after one semester. They would marry, raise a family, and share with their children and grandchildren dreams of possibility: education, travel, families, and contributing to the communities with which they were involved.
In the mid 1960s, they moved to Orange Park, Florida. Mike worked first as a state auditor and then at the University of North Florida, where he served as Comptroller and then Business Manager. With a group of neighborhood women in Orange Park, Florida, Annie created Park Potters, Inc, specializing in functional ceramics as well as potter's wheel art.
When Ann suddenly lost her beloved Mike, age 49, to a staph infection, she took her broken heart and poured it into years of teaching fine arts and art history at St. Johns Country Day School. This wonderful community, as well as her earlier years teaching at Grace Episcopal Day School, provided her exquisite life-long friendships.
After retiring, Ann moved to St. Augustine, Florida, which had been her and Mike's dream. Wanting her family to know something of their ancestral homelands, she took them to Ireland and Minorca. In collaboration with friends, she restored a house at 323 St. George Street and then another at 320 St. George Street. She feared no tool.
One of her more astonishing projects was a solo trip to Alaska in her mid-70s, traveling alone for three weeks by single-passenger plane, train, and once when roads had washed out her bus travel, she rode through the night in the back of a pick-up truck in an effort make the departure time for a ferry.
When Annie was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2020, she decided to forego further medical treatment and moved in with her son in Gainesville, Florida, where she enjoyed sweet last days with family and friends.
Annie leaves behind three living children: Darien Elizabeth Andreu (David Nolan); Michael Gardner Andreu (Anne) and their son Branan; Jeanne-Marie Dennison (John) and their daughters Caitlin and Lauren. She was predeceased by her son-in-law James Robin King (Darien) and her beloved daughter Madeleine "Mandy" Ann Duss (Claude). Mandy, Claude, and their daughters Anne-Elise Duss (Evan) and Emily Marie Stein (Rob) and their son Charlie, provided Annie the beautiful Victorian home at 320 St. George Street, where she lived for 22 years. Annie's brother-in-law Patrick Andreu (Tonia) and sister-in-law Marguerite Andreu are also surviving family.
Annie will be buried next to Mike and her parents, Mary Gardner Branan and Alvord Walker Branan, in Magnolia Cemetery in Orange Park, Florida.
Ann Elizabeth Branan Andreu, age 86, passed from this world on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, in Gainesville, Florida, in the embrace of her family.
Ann was born in St. Louis, Missouri. When she was three, her parents and her older brother, Alvord "Al" Walker Branan, moved to a farm in west Jacksonville, Florida, an area needed during World War II for the Naval Auxiliary Air Station Cecil Field. Branan Field Road and the Branan Field Wildlife and Environmental Area carry her family name.
The love of her life was Bernard Michael Andreu, the handsome dark-eyed boy she met in ninth grade. When Mike walked into their St. Paul Catholic School classroom for the first time, their eyes locked. She said they both knew, even without saying so for many years more, that their love would be forever. Later at Bishop Kenny High School, Ann was the head cheerleader and Mike was a multi-sport star, and in 1958, they graduated having been elected prom King and Queen. Ann left for Florida State University, and Mike went to University of Florida, but they reunited at UF after one semester. They would marry, raise a family, and share with their children and grandchildren dreams of possibility: education, travel, families, and contributing to the communities with which they were involved.
In the mid 1960s, they moved to Orange Park, Florida. Mike worked first as a state auditor and then at the University of North Florida, where he served as Comptroller and then Business Manager. With a group of neighborhood women in Orange Park, Florida, Annie created Park Potters, Inc, specializing in functional ceramics as well as potter's wheel art.
When Ann suddenly lost her beloved Mike, age 49, to a staph infection, she took her broken heart and poured it into years of teaching fine arts and art history at St. Johns Country Day School. This wonderful community, as well as her earlier years teaching at Grace Episcopal Day School, provided her exquisite life-long friendships.
After retiring, Ann moved to St. Augustine, Florida, which had been her and Mike's dream. Wanting her family to know something of their ancestral homelands, she took them to Ireland and Minorca. In collaboration with friends, she restored a house at 323 St. George Street and then another at 320 St. George Street. She feared no tool.
One of her more astonishing projects was a solo trip to Alaska in her mid-70s, traveling alone for three weeks by single-passenger plane, train, and once when roads had washed out her bus travel, she rode through the night in the back of a pick-up truck in an effort make the departure time for a ferry.
When Annie was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2020, she decided to forego further medical treatment and moved in with her son in Gainesville, Florida, where she enjoyed sweet last days with family and friends.
Annie leaves behind three living children: Darien Elizabeth Andreu (David Nolan); Michael Gardner Andreu (Anne) and their son Branan; Jeanne-Marie Dennison (John) and their daughters Caitlin and Lauren. She was predeceased by her son-in-law James Robin King (Darien) and her beloved daughter Madeleine "Mandy" Ann Duss (Claude). Mandy, Claude, and their daughters Anne-Elise Duss (Evan) and Emily Marie Stein (Rob) and their son Charlie, provided Annie the beautiful Victorian home at 320 St. George Street, where she lived for 22 years. Annie's brother-in-law Patrick Andreu (Tonia) and sister-in-law Marguerite Andreu are also surviving family.
Annie will be buried next to Mike and her parents, Mary Gardner Branan and Alvord Walker Branan, in Magnolia Cemetery in Orange Park, Florida.
Ann was born in St. Louis, Missouri. When she was three, her parents and her older brother, Alvord "Al" Walker Branan, moved to a farm in west Jacksonville, Florida, an area needed during World War II for the Naval Auxiliary Air Station Cecil Field. Branan Field Road and the Branan Field Wildlife and Environmental Area carry her family name.
The love of her life was Bernard Michael Andreu, the handsome dark-eyed boy she met in ninth grade. When Mike walked into their St. Paul Catholic School classroom for the first time, their eyes locked. She said they both knew, even without saying so for many years more, that their love would be forever. Later at Bishop Kenny High School, Ann was the head cheerleader and Mike was a multi-sport star, and in 1958, they graduated having been elected prom King and Queen. Ann left for Florida State University, and Mike went to University of Florida, but they reunited at UF after one semester. They would marry, raise a family, and share with their children and grandchildren dreams of possibility: education, travel, families, and contributing to the communities with which they were involved.
In the mid 1960s, they moved to Orange Park, Florida. Mike worked first as a state auditor and then at the University of North Florida, where he served as Comptroller and then Business Manager. With a group of neighborhood women in Orange Park, Florida, Annie created Park Potters, Inc, specializing in functional ceramics as well as potter's wheel art.
When Ann suddenly lost her beloved Mike, age 49, to a staph infection, she took her broken heart and poured it into years of teaching fine arts and art history at St. Johns Country Day School. This wonderful community, as well as her earlier years teaching at Grace Episcopal Day School, provided her exquisite life-long friendships.
After retiring, Ann moved to St. Augustine, Florida, which had been her and Mike's dream. Wanting her family to know something of their ancestral homelands, she took them to Ireland and Minorca. In collaboration with friends, she restored a house at 323 St. George Street and then another at 320 St. George Street. She feared no tool.
One of her more astonishing projects was a solo trip to Alaska in her mid-70s, traveling alone for three weeks by single-passenger plane, train, and once when roads had washed out her bus travel, she rode through the night in the back of a pick-up truck in an effort make the departure time for a ferry.
When Annie was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2020, she decided to forego further medical treatment and moved in with her son in Gainesville, Florida, where she enjoyed sweet last days with family and friends.
Annie leaves behind three living children: Darien Elizabeth Andreu (David Nolan); Michael Gardner Andreu (Anne) and their son Branan; Jeanne-Marie Dennison (John) and their daughters Caitlin and Lauren. She was predeceased by her son-in-law James Robin King (Darien) and her beloved daughter Madeleine "Mandy" Ann Duss (Claude). Mandy, Claude, and their daughters Anne-Elise Duss (Evan) and Emily Marie Stein (Rob) and their son Charlie, provided Annie the beautiful Victorian home at 320 St. George Street, where she lived for 22 years. Annie's brother-in-law Patrick Andreu (Tonia) and sister-in-law Marguerite Andreu are also surviving family.
Annie will be buried next to Mike and her parents, Mary Gardner Branan and Alvord Walker Branan, in Magnolia Cemetery in Orange Park, Florida.
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