Anne Carolyn Seashore Drewry

Anne Carolyn Seashore Drewry lived a full, beautiful life. Her spirit left her body on Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025, a long two years, two months, and six days after her beloved husband, Garth Richard Drewry passed away. Anne died just before what would have been their 65th wedding anniversary. Anne and Garth saw the New Year's Eve ball drop in New York's Time Square on their honeymoon. "Everyone should be lucky enough to do that once in their life."

Anne was born in Springfield, Massachusetts to Harold and Ruby Idstrom Seashore but, with her brother John, spent most of her childhood in White Plains, New York. She worked hard, made good grades, loved to read, twirled the baton and played the flute with the marching band in high school. Her best friend from childhood, Rosemary Clark, was a lifelong fast friend. They talked on the phone frequently in the weeks and months and years before Anne's passing. Anne graduated from Oberlin University in 1957 and went on to get her Master's in Education from Boston University.

Anne married in 1960 and happily had four children in quick succession. They were the lights of her life. Her whole world revolved around them, sewing them baby clothes and then matching outfits, helping them make boxes into rocket ships, and serving picnic lunches in the treehouse-spaceship in the backyard. When the last child started kindergarten, Anne went back to school too. She taught at St. John's Episcopal School in Tampa, Florida for decades. Since the school was so small, Anne sometimes taught her own children, resulting in entire classes of students calling her mom. Mom was passionate about teaching, urging the best from everyone. A great joy of her later years was keeping up with the adult lives of her students.

Anne especially reveled in the summer vacations of her teaching years. Because Taylor Ikin, her best friend on Davis Island and in Hyde Park, moved to Antigua, Anne took her family to Antigua for ten summers in a row. For three or four weeks at a time, everyone squeezed into the Ikin’s home on the beach.

Anne's passions were projects: year round gift giving for birthdays; every December a full week of baking Christmas cookies, frosted and sprinkled to perfection, with the extended family (ask any of her children for Spritz, Krakaner, or Pepparkakar recipes); reading extensively (romances, mysteries, best sellers, and the newest research on ancient Greece and Rome); writing History curriculums; planning big travel for the family; and keeping up with her myriad friends. The number of friends she had and the depth of those friendships speak volumes about Anne's kindness.

Anne's creative side blossomed when she retired from teaching. She began in Taylor's watercolor class and soon became an award-winning painter with work displayed in collections far and wide. Though Anne shifted her practice from representational watercolor to more abstract acrylic collages, she never hesitated to go back to representational when a relative had a new house to be drawn and commemorated. Her love of learning took her and her friends to artist workshops all over the world: Bali and Kanuga were her favorite creative places.

Anne will be terribly missed by her four children, their three spouses, and the ten beloved grandchildren and their partners: Raymond and Susan, Eleanor, Catherine and Bennett, and George Drewry; David and Roberta, Devin and Molly, Michael and Sneha, Carolyn, and Grace Drewry; Douglas Drewry; Elizabeth and Andy, Julia and Kevin, Drew, and Sophie Beck. Anne's amazing caregivers can't be left out of the list of those she loved and who loved her so well: Reneice, Jackie, Aloma, Michelle and Doreen. Anne's family is thankful for the caring workers at Sunrise of Buckhead, especially her favorites, Claudia and Epey. The family also holds gratitude for the Brighton Hospice Care team, especially Naomie.

The family will have a small memorial service in the next several months. In lieu of flowers or donations, please text someone you love and tell them how important they are to you. No matter how old you grow to be, life is short. Be swift to love and make haste to be kind.