Ann Stewart Wiegand

Funeral Services will be held at 1:30 P.M. Friday, July 7, 2019 at Covenant Life Presbyterian Church. Interment will follow at Sarasota Memorial Park.

Ann Stewart Wiegand 95, known to most as ‘Grammy’ born January 24, 1924 in Youngstown Ohio to Albert and Mable Stewart. Ann was youngest of five children.

She is survived by her sons Gary wife Rosalene, Lance, Gregg and daughter-in-law Susan all of Sarasota. Ten Grandchildren and thirty Great Grandchildren Several nieces and nephews. She is predeceased by her mother and father, husband Paul, son Richard, brothers, Courtney, Myron and sister Lucille.

In 1946 she, her husband Paul and first (of four sons) Richard moved to Sarasota, FL. This was not her first trip to FL. In 1926 the Stewart family camped down what was then known as tin can alley (due to all the tin cans campers deposited on the side of the road) to Ft. Lauderdale. They lived in a two storey house her dad named Mango Mar, because of the large mango trees in the yard. Unfortunately they made it just in time to experience the Great Hurricane of 26.

The Stewart family moved back to Cleveland, OH where in the 9th grade Ann met Paul the love of her life. She was married in 1943 at the age of 19 in a civil ceremony since parents were against the wedding. Moving to Sarasota with just $600. Paul built their first house on Bispham Road, where they lived for 29 years, raising their four boys. Then in 1975 Paul built their second house on Ruby Lane where she lived for 39 years only moving to Tallahassee, to live her last year with her grand daughter Sheri and her family.

In addition to being a mother of four boys, Ann was a Secretary for engineers at EMR for four years, She was innkeeper, manager, house clerk and maid, at the family business, The LaRue Motel on Stickney Pointe Road 5 years, and secretary and bookkeeper at Wiegand Brothers Funeral Home for 10 years. Ann was a charter member of Pine Shores Church, a Charter member of Church of the Covenant and a 35 year member of Covenant Life Presbyterian Church. She was active in AGLOW a Christian women’s organization, serving as secretary for many years.

Ann loved her family! She was an out door girl who loved yard work, to boat, camp and travel. She and Paul went on dozens of trips and curses to many countries. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends.

Ann will be laid to rest next to her husband Paul in Sarasota Memorial Park Sarasota.