I worked with Anne for many many years at the car dealership. She always called me. “little one”.  So many memories of us talking. I always enjoyed her humming her cute, favorite song. She would make me laugh from time to time as her feistiness would come out with certain customers…never to them, of course,. This was the last time I saw her back in 2014. I think of her often and will always remember her sweet smile. 

Lost touch with Anne during the pandemic. I worked with her at a car dealership,  and kept in touch almost daily since we left. Miss our many lunches, until we both became physically unable to go. She was a good friend, and will be sorely missed. 

I remember my Aunt Ann as my favorite funny blonde hair aunt she and her family would come home to the farm in August for the family reunion when everyone would get together for a week before going home. I wish I had a camcorder back then to record those times in the 60's and early 70's before it all ended. The last time I saw her was back in 1983 when she and 3 other relatives came out to visit. I'll miss her and my condolences to her family Charlie and Cathy. 
With Love from cousin 
Wiliam J. Palenk Jr.    ( Billy)


I will always have many wonderful memories of Anne.  As a child, I grew to know her from our days at the farm in PA.  To me back then, she always seemed so lively and happy – unlike the very stoic woman she came to be years later.  She held on tightly to her strong beliefs in God and country and was rarely -if ever- swayed in her thinking to go against what she dogmatically believed, often to the consternation of those around her.  She lived by the Golden Rule, but was never at a loss for words to expound about crooked politicians, nosy or unsavory neighbors, unreliable people –particularly repairmen.   Anne said what she thought, what she believed…always. She was genuine.  She didn’t voice her strong opinions to be mean or cruel, or even to persuade you to think her way.  She just spoke from her heart, and I suppose that’s a big part of what I loved and admired about her. You always knew where you stood with her and always knew you’d get a straight answer.  She, like my mother, was a hard worker.  I worried about her when into her eighties, she was still driving around the streets of Phoenix chauffeuring for the car dealership.  But she loved it.  And they loved her. Though she herself was fiercely independent, she never hesitated to lend a helping hand to those in need around her, and never expected any accolades in return.   
                                    I love you, Anne, and I will miss you.
  “The song is ended, but the melody lingers on…”    Irving Berlin



Aunt Anne was always my favorite Aunt. She could always make me laugh  and I loved hearing her tell stories of their childhood.The times that we all traveled back to Pennsylvania where the best memories of my childhood  and Anne was the life of the group.  Pair her with Aunt Mary  and it was unending laughter. She will be missed. My condolences to Kathy and Charlie and your families.  All my prayers  and love, Your cousin Carolyn ( Palenik ) Gilliam. 

OBITUARY

Anne Margaret Lewis

October 16, 1927 – November 7, 2021

Green Acres Mortuary & Cemetery

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