October 12, 1941 - December 17, 2022
Ann Elizabeth Hirst Sande of Grand Forks, North Dakota, passed distant connected Saturday, December 17th owed to aesculapian complications. Ann was calved October 12, 1941, successful Concord, New Hampshire to Heston and Ruth (Galway) Hirst. In 1944, her household moved to Barrington, Rhode Island, wherever Ann grew up and ever called home. She was a Brownie and a Girl Scout. She was a 1959 precocious schoolhouse postgraduate of The Wheeler School successful Providence, RI. While there, she was a subordinate of the glee nine and was the concern exertion of the yearbook. She was a National Merit Scholar - a designation of her world achievement. Wheeler prepared her good for Smith College for Women successful Northampton, Massachusetts wherever she was an English lit major, sang successful the glee club, and made galore life-long friends. She graduated successful 1963. She continued her narration with Smith College agelong aft graduation and for immoderate years was the Class of 1963 chairperson for peculiar gifts and people steward raising wealth for the college. Following graduation, she worked for Encyclopedia Britannica Library Research Service successful Boston for 4 years. She loved probe and penning and often said successful jest, “Ask maine anything.”
Ann met David Lewis Sande connected a unsighted day successful Boston. They were introduced by Jon Rhode, a person of Ann from Barrington, RI who was attending Harvard Medical School with David. They joined August 28th, 1965, successful Providence, RI, and began 45 fantastic years of marriage. While David completed his oral country residency astatine Mr. Sinai Hospital successful New York City, Ann helped enactment them by moving connected Wall Street successful the Bear Stearns & Co. probe department. The soon-to-be household of 3 moved to Grand Forks successful July of 1970 and welcomed their firstborn son, Hans Ole. Dana Clarkson Stillings followed successful 1972, and their household was complete.
Ann had galore hobbies and passions passim her lifetime, and touched galore lives. She was a prolific scholar of fiction, and Star Trek (the archetypal and sequels) was her favourite TV show. She ever listened to nationalist radio, and successful the 1980s worked astatine KFJM Prairie Public Radio spinning the classical vinyl. She volunteered for galore organizations including the Roosevelt/Lewis and Clark Parent Teachers Organization, United Way, Girl Scouts, Rape Crisis Center (now known arsenic CVIC), and astir precocious the Grand Forks Community Advisory Committee.
Ann was elected to the Grand Forks City Council successful June 1994, serving the metropolis during the historical flood of 1997. She took her work arsenic a assembly subordinate earnestly and was arrogant to service her constituents. Her enactment connected the assembly is memorialized by her imaginativeness to enactment the gathering of the Grand Forks Greenway which continues to payment section residents and volition bash truthful for generations.
Ann was a fearless paper subordinate and often her lad Dana’s paper partner. She would often lament, “If it’s not 1 thing, it’s another.” She was an accomplished cook, often “personalized” Julia Child’s recipes erstwhile hosting household and friends. She collected implicit 300 cookbooks. When not cooking she liked to stitchery with household and friends for meal astatine downtown restaurants.
Ann was a arrogant Rotarian, typically starring their radical successful song. She was ever up for an adventure. She and David loved their travel to Turkey. Ann besides travelled with her parent to Ireland visiting the municipality wherever her mother’s household inactive has relatives. Whether it was travelling the satellite oregon riding successful a conduit connected the water with her grandchildren, she was acceptable to go.
Ann Sande was a loving and caring daughter, sister, devoted and adored spouse with David, mother, grandmother, and friend. She loved her children and grandchildren, and they volition miss her eternally. In the eyes of her family, and those who knew her, she volition beryllium remembered arsenic 1 who cared, made a affirmative contribution, and was ever exquisite.
She is survived by her sons Hans (Kristine), Dana (Meggen), and grandchildren Stella, Clarkson and Curtis; brothers Edgar (Robin) Hirst of Marina Del Rey, CA, and George (Nan) Hirst of Cape Cod, MA; brother-in-law Steve (Susan) Sande of Scottsdale, AZ and sister-in-law Karen Sande of Round Rock, Texas; and galore nieces and nephews. She was preceded successful decease by her husband, parents, parents-in-law, and brother-in-law Curtis. **In lieu of flowers, memorials whitethorn beryllium directed to the Northlands Rescue Mission. VISITATION: 4:30 pm, MEMORIAL SERVICES: 5:30 PM Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023, astatine the Empire Arts Center, 415 Demers Ave., Grand Forks. RECEPTION: hr agelong reception volition travel the service.
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