Ann Evans Calagaz, age 80, of Mobile, Alabama passed away on Thursday, July 21, 2022. Ann was born January 26, 1942 in Quantico, Virginia. Ann was preceded in death by father Master Sergeant Thomas D. Evans and mother Mary Sledd Evans. She is survived by her beloved husband of 60 years, Frank J. Calagaz, Jr, her three children, Pauline C. McKean (Scott), Joe Calagaz (Wendy), and Tanya C. Nelson (Bert), grandchildren Maegan Maloney (Dylan), Walt McKean, Courtney, Emily and Gracie Calagaz, Sanden and Mary Evan Nelson, two great-grandchildren Beatrice and Ann Alice Maloney, her sister Amy Sheldon of Summerdale, AL, her Aunt Madeline Sledd Johnson of Mechanicsville, VA and many cousins, nieces and nephews.
Ann was an accomplished artist and has an associate degree in art, with honors, from Faulkner State Community College. Many of her paintings have been chosen to be shown in national and international shows including the Georgia Watercolor Society, Louisiana Watercolor Society, International Society of Experimental Artists, the Western Colorado Society, Alliance of Women Artists in Plato, CA, and Ridgewood Art Institute in Ridgewood, N.J.
As a member of the Alliance of Women Artists, Calagaz joined a group of 12 international artists in an “Exposition Permanente du” for Art Contemporain in April 1999 at Galerie Everarts in Paris. She was invited to represent Mobile in the Sister City Tour to Germany, Poland and Slovakia and has paintings in each of those countries.
Calagaz has taught at Eastern Shore Art Center, Bay Rivers Art Guild, Pensacola Junior College, the Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida, Walter Anderson Museum of Art, and at Cathedral Square Gallery. She also taught classes in Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Denmark.
Ann was an active member of the Archdiocese of Mobile and supported and volunteered in numerous organizations. Ann was a Dame of Ordo Equestris Sancti Sepulcri Hierosolymitani (The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem) and was awarded the Gold medal of PRO ECCLESIA ET PONTIFICE (For Church and Pope) from Pope Benedict. She was also a member of The Association Jeanne Jugan.
A visitation for Ann will be held Sunday, July 24, 2022 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Radney Funeral Home, 3155 Dauphin Street, Mobile, Alabama 36606. Rosary will be at 5:00 pm. The funeral service is Monday, July 25, 2022 at 11:00 AM at Christ The King Catholic Church, 1505 Main St., Daphne, Alabama 36526. The funeral mass will be live streamed as well as archived at https://ctkdaphne.org/
Ann will be laid to rest in Alabama State Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Spanish Fort, Alabama.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.radneyfuneralhome-mobile.com for the Calagaz family. The family would request any donations to be given to Little Sisters of the Poor in memory of Ann.
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