Anne McAfee, age 82, of Austin passed away on Saturday, July 13, 2013.
Austin lost one of her staunchest progressive activists on Saturday, July 13,
2013.
Anne McAfee, a lifelong Austinite who had been actively involved in state and
local politics for the better part of seven decades, died peacefully at home
surrounded by her family. Anne suffered from complications following a stroke
that occurred while she was attending and supporting the recent filibuster on
women's rights at the Texas State Capitol. She was 82.
Born Anne Elizabeth Castleberry, Anne grew up in her Faulk grandparents' 1890s
home on a small farm in what was then semi-rural South Austin. As a teenager her
chores included carrying in wood for the stoves and milking the family's cows
each morning before going off to school.
In addition to her grandparents and her mother English teacher Martha Faulk
Castleberry Anne grew up in the large farm home with aunts, uncles and
numerous cousins, as well as other relatives and friends who might drop in just
for a visit but end up "staying a spell." Her aunt, Mary Faulk Koock,
established Green Pastures Restaurant in this lovely home in 1946.
The family home was a place where no topic was too sacred for discussion where
politics, religion, education and child-rearing were regular topics around the
dinner table or while gathered out on the front porch. The Faulk home had been
the location for numerous meetings of the local Women's Suffrage movement in the
decade before Anne was born and her grandmother and others talked often of those
efforts and of advancing women's rights further. Grace Methodist Church was the
center of the family's social lives and the basis for their social justice
activities.
In the Faulk home Anne developed a profound love of America and its founding
ideals and developed a deep commitment to principles of justice and inclusion
for all. Helping America live up to those principles and become that "more
perfect union" guided her life and her activism.
Anne got hooked on politics as a 13-year-old volunteer in the 1944 Minnie Fisher
Cunningham for Governor campaign. Twenty-five years earlier "Minnie Fish" had
been president of the Texas Women's Suffrage Association and Anne liked to point
out that Texas got the right to vote for women two years before it became law
nationally.
Anne graduated from old Austin High in 1948 and attended UT as a history major
until 1952 when she married Bill McAfee, who had come to Austin from Corsicana
to attend the University of Texas.
Having five children in quick succession, Anne was a homemaker for a good many
years, active in teaching swimming lessons, the PTA, carpooling, etc.
After the children were older, Anne edited their weekly newspaper, The Austin
Times, a monthly magazine, Go Austin!, and helped Bill in all of their other
business ventures.
A serious student of history and public affairs, she devoured information,
subscribing to The Congressional Record as well as numerous other political
publications. Historians as well as local, state, and even national political
candidates often turned to her for her in-depth knowledge of legislative affairs
and Texas and national politics.
Throughout her life Anne was deeply involved in numerous campaigns from the
courthouse to the White House. At age 17, she attended the Progressive Party
Convention in Philadelphia and supported Henry Wallace for President. Although
she loved riding horses, she sold her treasured saddle to get the money for the
trip.
Among others, she worked to elect Ralph Yarborough to the U.S. Senate;
campaigned for Henry B. Gonzalez for Governor; was a statewide coordinator for
George McGovern for President; and served as campaign treasurer for John Courage
and for Maria Canchola.
Anne was also one of the original founders of the Save Barton Creek Association,
served for many years as an officer and newsletter editor for the Austin League
of Women Voters and the Travis County Democratic Women's Committee, and
represented our senatorial district as committeewoman on the State Democratic
Executive Committee. She and Bill were part of the original group of Yeller Dawg
Democrats who have been meeting each Saturday for more than 20 years.
Besides working for progressive candidates, Anne worked tirelessly to help
create an America that offered liberty, justice, and opportunity for all. She
worked for causes that included ending nuclear proliferation, ending war,
protecting the environment, promoting civil rights for minorities and farm
workers, protecting women's rights, and providing health care for all.
Anne worked for years on compiling the history of the seven generations of her
family in Austin and had nearly finished her book at the time of her death. She
took pride in her deep Texas roots as a member of one of the families who
received a land grant from Stephen F. Austin.
She loved her large extended family deeply, and imparted a legacy of political
engagement to be passed on to future generations.
Anne is survived by her husband of 61 years, Bill McAfee; children Susan
Raybuck, Mark McAfee, Karen Kate McAfee, Laura O'Neill, and Nancy Dyer;
sons-in-law Perry Raybuck and Allan Dyer; grandchildren David Raybuck, Abigail
Daigle, Sean Raybuck, Adrienne O'Neill, Amanda Adele McAfee, Kaela Dyer Luna,
Kevin Deckard McAfee, Emerson McAfee, Garrett Dyer, Kenny O'Neill, Jeff McAfee
Deckard, and Sarah O'Neill; and great-grandchildren Sydney, Perry, Harper, and
Everlee.
The family would like to thank the extraordinary staff at Brackenridge Hospital
and at Hospice Austin, as well as Tad Davis, M.D. who stepped forward to help
Anne at the Capitol immediately following her stroke and who accompanied her
from the Capitol to Brackenridge.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Anne McAfee Fund at Planned
Parenthood of Greater Texas (PPGT), 201 East Ben White Blvd., Bldg B, Austin
78704; Capitol Area Food Bank of Texas, 8201 South Congress Ave, Austin 78745;
or SafePlace, P.O. Box 19454, Austin 78760.
Funeral services will occur early Saturday for her large extended family. A
celebration of her life for family, friends, and acquaintances will be held on
Saturday, July 20th at 2 p.m. at Green Pastures, 811 W. Live Oak Street, Anne's
childhood home.
Austin lost one of her staunchest progressive activists on Saturday, July 13,
2013.
Anne McAfee, a lifelong Austinite who had been actively involved in state and
local politics for the better part of seven decades, died peacefully at home
surrounded by her family. Anne suffered from complications following a stroke
that occurred while she was attending and supporting the recent filibuster on
women's rights at the Texas State Capitol. She was 82.
Born Anne Elizabeth Castleberry, Anne grew up in her Faulk grandparents' 1890s
home on a small farm in what was then semi-rural South Austin. As a teenager her
chores included carrying in wood for the stoves and milking the family's cows
each morning before going off to school.
In addition to her grandparents and her mother English teacher Martha Faulk
Castleberry Anne grew up in the large farm home with aunts, uncles and
numerous cousins, as well as other relatives and friends who might drop in just
for a visit but end up "staying a spell." Her aunt, Mary Faulk Koock,
established Green Pastures Restaurant in this lovely home in 1946.
The family home was a place where no topic was too sacred for discussion where
politics, religion, education and child-rearing were regular topics around the
dinner table or while gathered out on the front porch. The Faulk home had been
the location for numerous meetings of the local Women's Suffrage movement in the
decade before Anne was born and her grandmother and others talked often of those
efforts and of advancing women's rights further. Grace Methodist Church was the
center of the family's social lives and the basis for their social justice
activities.
In the Faulk home Anne developed a profound love of America and its founding
ideals and developed a deep commitment to principles of justice and inclusion
for all. Helping America live up to those principles and become that "more
perfect union" guided her life and her activism.
Anne got hooked on politics as a 13-year-old volunteer in the 1944 Minnie Fisher
Cunningham for Governor campaign. Twenty-five years earlier "Minnie Fish" had
been president of the Texas Women's Suffrage Association and Anne liked to point
out that Texas got the right to vote for women two years before it became law
nationally.
Anne graduated from old Austin High in 1948 and attended UT as a history major
until 1952 when she married Bill McAfee, who had come to Austin from Corsicana
to attend the University of Texas.
Having five children in quick succession, Anne was a homemaker for a good many
years, active in teaching swimming lessons, the PTA, carpooling, etc.
After the children were older, Anne edited their weekly newspaper, The Austin
Times, a monthly magazine, Go Austin!, and helped Bill in all of their other
business ventures.
A serious student of history and public affairs, she devoured information,
subscribing to The Congressional Record as well as numerous other political
publications. Historians as well as local, state, and even national political
candidates often turned to her for her in-depth knowledge of legislative affairs
and Texas and national politics.
Throughout her life Anne was deeply involved in numerous campaigns from the
courthouse to the White House. At age 17, she attended the Progressive Party
Convention in Philadelphia and supported Henry Wallace for President. Although
she loved riding horses, she sold her treasured saddle to get the money for the
trip.
Among others, she worked to elect Ralph Yarborough to the U.S. Senate;
campaigned for Henry B. Gonzalez for Governor; was a statewide coordinator for
George McGovern for President; and served as campaign treasurer for John Courage
and for Maria Canchola.
Anne was also one of the original founders of the Save Barton Creek Association,
served for many years as an officer and newsletter editor for the Austin League
of Women Voters and the Travis County Democratic Women's Committee, and
represented our senatorial district as committeewoman on the State Democratic
Executive Committee. She and Bill were part of the original group of Yeller Dawg
Democrats who have been meeting each Saturday for more than 20 years.
Besides working for progressive candidates, Anne worked tirelessly to help
create an America that offered liberty, justice, and opportunity for all. She
worked for causes that included ending nuclear proliferation, ending war,
protecting the environment, promoting civil rights for minorities and farm
workers, protecting women's rights, and providing health care for all.
Anne worked for years on compiling the history of the seven generations of her
family in Austin and had nearly finished her book at the time of her death. She
took pride in her deep Texas roots as a member of one of the families who
received a land grant from Stephen F. Austin.
She loved her large extended family deeply, and imparted a legacy of political
engagement to be passed on to future generations.
Anne is survived by her husband of 61 years, Bill McAfee; children Susan
Raybuck, Mark McAfee, Karen Kate McAfee, Laura O'Neill, and Nancy Dyer;
sons-in-law Perry Raybuck and Allan Dyer; grandchildren David Raybuck, Abigail
Daigle, Sean Raybuck, Adrienne O'Neill, Amanda Adele McAfee, Kaela Dyer Luna,
Kevin Deckard McAfee, Emerson McAfee, Garrett Dyer, Kenny O'Neill, Jeff McAfee
Deckard, and Sarah O'Neill; and great-grandchildren Sydney, Perry, Harper, and
Everlee.
The family would like to thank the extraordinary staff at Brackenridge Hospital
and at Hospice Austin, as well as Tad Davis, M.D. who stepped forward to help
Anne at the Capitol immediately following her stroke and who accompanied her
from the Capitol to Brackenridge.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Anne McAfee Fund at Planned
Parenthood of Greater Texas (PPGT), 201 East Ben White Blvd., Bldg B, Austin
78704; Capitol Area Food Bank of Texas, 8201 South Congress Ave, Austin 78745;
or SafePlace, P.O. Box 19454, Austin 78760.
Funeral services will occur early Saturday for her large extended family. A
celebration of her life for family, friends, and acquaintances will be held on
Saturday, July 20th at 2 p.m. at Green Pastures, 811 W. Live Oak Street, Anne's
childhood home.
Anne McAfee, age 82, of Austin passed away on Saturday, July 13, 2013.
Austin lost one of her staunchest progressive activists on Saturday, July 13,
2013.
Anne McAfee, a lifelong Austinite who had been actively involved in state and
local politics for the better part of seven decades, died peacefully at home
surrounded by her family. Anne suffered from complications following a stroke
that occurred while she was attending and supporting the recent filibuster on
women's rights at the Texas State Capitol. She was 82.
Born Anne Elizabeth Castleberry, Anne grew up in her Faulk grandparents' 1890s
home on a small farm in what was then semi-rural South Austin. As a teenager her
chores included carrying in wood for the stoves and milking the family's cows
each morning before going off to school.
In addition to her grandparents and her mother English teacher Martha Faulk
Castleberry Anne grew up in the large farm home with aunts, uncles and
numerous cousins, as well as other relatives and friends who might drop in just
for a visit but end up "staying a spell." Her aunt, Mary Faulk Koock,
established Green Pastures Restaurant in this lovely home in 1946.
The family home was a place where no topic was too sacred for discussion where
politics, religion, education and child-rearing were regular topics around the
dinner table or while gathered out on the front porch. The Faulk home had been
the location for numerous meetings of the local Women's Suffrage movement in the
decade before Anne was born and her grandmother and others talked often of those
efforts and of advancing women's rights further. Grace Methodist Church was the
center of the family's social lives and the basis for their social justice
activities.
In the Faulk home Anne developed a profound love of America and its founding
ideals and developed a deep commitment to principles of justice and inclusion
for all. Helping America live up to those principles and become that "more
perfect union" guided her life and her activism.
Anne got hooked on politics as a 13-year-old volunteer in the 1944 Minnie Fisher
Cunningham for Governor campaign. Twenty-five years earlier "Minnie Fish" had
been president of the Texas Women's Suffrage Association and Anne liked to point
out that Texas got the right to vote for women two years before it became law
nationally.
Anne graduated from old Austin High in 1948 and attended UT as a history major
until 1952 when she married Bill McAfee, who had come to Austin from Corsicana
to attend the University of Texas.
Having five children in quick succession, Anne was a homemaker for a good many
years, active in teaching swimming lessons, the PTA, carpooling, etc.
After the children were older, Anne edited their weekly newspaper, The Austin
Times, a monthly magazine, Go Austin!, and helped Bill in all of their other
business ventures.
A serious student of history and public affairs, she devoured information,
subscribing to The Congressional Record as well as numerous other political
publications. Historians as well as local, state, and even national political
candidates often turned to her for her in-depth knowledge of legislative affairs
and Texas and national politics.
Throughout her life Anne was deeply involved in numerous campaigns from the
courthouse to the White House. At age 17, she attended the Progressive Party
Convention in Philadelphia and supported Henry Wallace for President. Although
she loved riding horses, she sold her treasured saddle to get the money for the
trip.
Among others, she worked to elect Ralph Yarborough to the U.S. Senate;
campaigned for Henry B. Gonzalez for Governor; was a statewide coordinator for
George McGovern for President; and served as campaign treasurer for John Courage
and for Maria Canchola.
Anne was also one of the original founders of the Save Barton Creek Association,
served for many years as an officer and newsletter editor for the Austin League
of Women Voters and the Travis County Democratic Women's Committee, and
represented our senatorial district as committeewoman on the State Democratic
Executive Committee. She and Bill were part of the original group of Yeller Dawg
Democrats who have been meeting each Saturday for more than 20 years.
Besides working for progressive candidates, Anne worked tirelessly to help
create an America that offered liberty, justice, and opportunity for all. She
worked for causes that included ending nuclear proliferation, ending war,
protecting the environment, promoting civil rights for minorities and farm
workers, protecting women's rights, and providing health care for all.
Anne worked for years on compiling the history of the seven generations of her
family in Austin and had nearly finished her book at the time of her death. She
took pride in her deep Texas roots as a member of one of the families who
received a land grant from Stephen F. Austin.
She loved her large extended family deeply, and imparted a legacy of political
engagement to be passed on to future generations.
Anne is survived by her husband of 61 years, Bill McAfee; children Susan
Raybuck, Mark McAfee, Karen Kate McAfee, Laura O'Neill, and Nancy Dyer;
sons-in-law Perry Raybuck and Allan Dyer; grandchildren David Raybuck, Abigail
Daigle, Sean Raybuck, Adrienne O'Neill, Amanda Adele McAfee, Kaela Dyer Luna,
Kevin Deckard McAfee, Emerson McAfee, Garrett Dyer, Kenny O'Neill, Jeff McAfee
Deckard, and Sarah O'Neill; and great-grandchildren Sydney, Perry, Harper, and
Everlee.
The family would like to thank the extraordinary staff at Brackenridge Hospital
and at Hospice Austin, as well as Tad Davis, M.D. who stepped forward to help
Anne at the Capitol immediately following her stroke and who accompanied her
from the Capitol to Brackenridge.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Anne McAfee Fund at Planned
Parenthood of Greater Texas (PPGT), 201 East Ben White Blvd., Bldg B, Austin
78704; Capitol Area Food Bank of Texas, 8201 South Congress Ave, Austin 78745;
or SafePlace, P.O. Box 19454, Austin 78760.
Funeral services will occur early Saturday for her large extended family. A
celebration of her life for family, friends, and acquaintances will be held on
Saturday, July 20th at 2 p.m. at Green Pastures, 811 W. Live Oak Street, Anne's
childhood home.
Austin lost one of her staunchest progressive activists on Saturday, July 13,
2013.
Anne McAfee, a lifelong Austinite who had been actively involved in state and
local politics for the better part of seven decades, died peacefully at home
surrounded by her family. Anne suffered from complications following a stroke
that occurred while she was attending and supporting the recent filibuster on
women's rights at the Texas State Capitol. She was 82.
Born Anne Elizabeth Castleberry, Anne grew up in her Faulk grandparents' 1890s
home on a small farm in what was then semi-rural South Austin. As a teenager her
chores included carrying in wood for the stoves and milking the family's cows
each morning before going off to school.
In addition to her grandparents and her mother English teacher Martha Faulk
Castleberry Anne grew up in the large farm home with aunts, uncles and
numerous cousins, as well as other relatives and friends who might drop in just
for a visit but end up "staying a spell." Her aunt, Mary Faulk Koock,
established Green Pastures Restaurant in this lovely home in 1946.
The family home was a place where no topic was too sacred for discussion where
politics, religion, education and child-rearing were regular topics around the
dinner table or while gathered out on the front porch. The Faulk home had been
the location for numerous meetings of the local Women's Suffrage movement in the
decade before Anne was born and her grandmother and others talked often of those
efforts and of advancing women's rights further. Grace Methodist Church was the
center of the family's social lives and the basis for their social justice
activities.
In the Faulk home Anne developed a profound love of America and its founding
ideals and developed a deep commitment to principles of justice and inclusion
for all. Helping America live up to those principles and become that "more
perfect union" guided her life and her activism.
Anne got hooked on politics as a 13-year-old volunteer in the 1944 Minnie Fisher
Cunningham for Governor campaign. Twenty-five years earlier "Minnie Fish" had
been president of the Texas Women's Suffrage Association and Anne liked to point
out that Texas got the right to vote for women two years before it became law
nationally.
Anne graduated from old Austin High in 1948 and attended UT as a history major
until 1952 when she married Bill McAfee, who had come to Austin from Corsicana
to attend the University of Texas.
Having five children in quick succession, Anne was a homemaker for a good many
years, active in teaching swimming lessons, the PTA, carpooling, etc.
After the children were older, Anne edited their weekly newspaper, The Austin
Times, a monthly magazine, Go Austin!, and helped Bill in all of their other
business ventures.
A serious student of history and public affairs, she devoured information,
subscribing to The Congressional Record as well as numerous other political
publications. Historians as well as local, state, and even national political
candidates often turned to her for her in-depth knowledge of legislative affairs
and Texas and national politics.
Throughout her life Anne was deeply involved in numerous campaigns from the
courthouse to the White House. At age 17, she attended the Progressive Party
Convention in Philadelphia and supported Henry Wallace for President. Although
she loved riding horses, she sold her treasured saddle to get the money for the
trip.
Among others, she worked to elect Ralph Yarborough to the U.S. Senate;
campaigned for Henry B. Gonzalez for Governor; was a statewide coordinator for
George McGovern for President; and served as campaign treasurer for John Courage
and for Maria Canchola.
Anne was also one of the original founders of the Save Barton Creek Association,
served for many years as an officer and newsletter editor for the Austin League
of Women Voters and the Travis County Democratic Women's Committee, and
represented our senatorial district as committeewoman on the State Democratic
Executive Committee. She and Bill were part of the original group of Yeller Dawg
Democrats who have been meeting each Saturday for more than 20 years.
Besides working for progressive candidates, Anne worked tirelessly to help
create an America that offered liberty, justice, and opportunity for all. She
worked for causes that included ending nuclear proliferation, ending war,
protecting the environment, promoting civil rights for minorities and farm
workers, protecting women's rights, and providing health care for all.
Anne worked for years on compiling the history of the seven generations of her
family in Austin and had nearly finished her book at the time of her death. She
took pride in her deep Texas roots as a member of one of the families who
received a land grant from Stephen F. Austin.
She loved her large extended family deeply, and imparted a legacy of political
engagement to be passed on to future generations.
Anne is survived by her husband of 61 years, Bill McAfee; children Susan
Raybuck, Mark McAfee, Karen Kate McAfee, Laura O'Neill, and Nancy Dyer;
sons-in-law Perry Raybuck and Allan Dyer; grandchildren David Raybuck, Abigail
Daigle, Sean Raybuck, Adrienne O'Neill, Amanda Adele McAfee, Kaela Dyer Luna,
Kevin Deckard McAfee, Emerson McAfee, Garrett Dyer, Kenny O'Neill, Jeff McAfee
Deckard, and Sarah O'Neill; and great-grandchildren Sydney, Perry, Harper, and
Everlee.
The family would like to thank the extraordinary staff at Brackenridge Hospital
and at Hospice Austin, as well as Tad Davis, M.D. who stepped forward to help
Anne at the Capitol immediately following her stroke and who accompanied her
from the Capitol to Brackenridge.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Anne McAfee Fund at Planned
Parenthood of Greater Texas (PPGT), 201 East Ben White Blvd., Bldg B, Austin
78704; Capitol Area Food Bank of Texas, 8201 South Congress Ave, Austin 78745;
or SafePlace, P.O. Box 19454, Austin 78760.
Funeral services will occur early Saturday for her large extended family. A
celebration of her life for family, friends, and acquaintances will be held on
Saturday, July 20th at 2 p.m. at Green Pastures, 811 W. Live Oak Street, Anne's
childhood home.
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