Charlotte Anne Lindsley

With her daughters by her side, the beautiful bright spirit of Charlotte Anne Card Lindsley escaped from her tired body after a lengthy battle with illness as the sun rose over Cooperstown, New York on Monday, May 30, 2022.

Anne was born on June 11, 1947 in Oneonta, New York to Roland “Red” Barton Card and Charlotte Kinney Hathaway. Anne was predeceased by her parents, her husband, Ronald Edward Lindsley, and her brothers, Lynn Barton Card of Orofino, Idaho, and Harold Ray Card, or Layton, Utah. Anne is survived by her daughters, Kimberley Lindsley (Jeffrey Dutcher) of Milford, New York, and Angella Lindsley Smith of Otego, New York; her beautiful granddaughter Holly Lindsley Smith; nieces Nance Card of Sparks, Nevada and Carrie Card of Clarkston, Washington; nephew Russell Card of Orofino, Idaho; and Gabby, her Maine Coon/Siamese mix.

As a child, Anne and her mother (a school teacher) traveled during their summer breaks. Their trip in June 1962 was tragically cut short when they were in an auto accident, leaving Anne in a coma and facing a lengthy recovery and the loss of her mother. Anne recovered and graduated from Oneonta High School in 1965. Anne began her life of service to others when she enrolled into the AO Fox Hospital X-ray Technician program, earning her certification as a radiology technician and worked in Fox Hospital’s radiology department.

Anne married her best friend, Ronald Edward Lindsley on August 10, 1968 shortly after he returned from his tour of duty in Vietnam with the United States Marine Corps. Anne and Ron purchased their home in Otego, New York in 1968, where they lived and raised their two daughters.

Anne moved on from radiology and began her career with New Channels (then Time Warner, and now Spectrum) working alongside her best friend and love of her life until his untimely death in 2002. Anne remained true to their retirement plans and continued to work at Time Warner until she retired in 2007.

Anne enjoyed motorcycle rides (even through the house), a good hockey fight, fast cars, and played golf as often as she could. Every summer, just as she and her mother did, Anne and her girls would visit local cemeteries to clean gravestones and place flowers for family members long gone but never forgotten. Anne was an amazing quilter and made dozens of quilts to gift to individuals in nursing homes. She always worried about those residents forgotten by their families and felt her little gifts just might bring them a little peace that someone out there was thinking of them. Anne also used her skilled hands for knitting hats and mittens for those seeking warmth; tiny quilts, hats and mittens for premature babies; and burial gowns for families in N.I.C.U. units facing tragic ends that no parent should ever face.

Anne’s dash was filled with laughter, lessons, tears, adventures, love, traditions, pain, loss, and closed with illness and death. Her final words were “I’m exhausted and I need to rest”. Rest well, Momma, your girls will be okay.

At Anne’s request, there will be no funeral services. It has been suggested that those who wish to do so, may send donations in Anne’s memory to your local nursing home.

Arrangements are by the Bookhout Funeral Home of Oneonta, New York.