Ann C. Motte

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Sabatino and Lena Chiaravalle, two recent immigrants from Italy. Sabatino and Lena worked hard in their adopted country to provide their children with the education and opportunities that they didn’t have in Italy.

Ann graduated in 1948 from Philadelphia’s prestigious J.W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School, the first diocesan Catholic High School for girls in the United States, and in 1954 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

Upon graduation from nursing school, Ann and two friends moved to San Francisco. They planned to see the U.S. while working their way back across the country to Philadelphia. Only one of the three friends made it back to Philadelphia.

Ann met a young engineer, Gene Motte at one of his weekly pool parties in Berkeley and 8 months later they were married on March 10, 1957. Children soon followed, Mona (1958), David (1959), Christopher (1961) and Kathryn Ann (1964). The growing family moved with Gene’s career at Union Oil from Berkeley to Concord, Walnut Creek, and Orange, California to Winfield, Illinois and then back to California, this time to La Canada in Southern California.

In 1970, when the kids were all in school in Winfield, Ann returned to work at the Central Dupage Hospital, becoming head nurse in the emergency room. So valued was Ann at the Hospital, that during bad Mid-western snowstorms, the county regularly sent a snow plow to pick her up so she could be at the emergency room those days. In addition to her work, Ann was always involved in volunteering for her children’s schools and she helped establish the Winfield Public Library.

Ann and Gene enjoyed traveling the world when the children left home. Ann, however, cherished most having family return home and hosting lavish holiday dinners in the dining room that had to be enlarged to fit the growing family of her children’s spouses and grandchildren.

Ann and Gene were the second residents at University Village, moving into their Villa in 2007 shortly after their 50th Wedding Anniversary. They were both active in the new UVTO community and Ann, along with Mary Ann Bang, established the Hospitality Committee that exists today to welcome every new resident.

Ann and Gene enjoyed all that University Village had to offer and loved the community there. The family is especially grateful to the staff and nurses at Oakview Health Center for the care Ann received the last few years in Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing, and especially for her doctor, Francoise Menteer.

Ann is pre-deceased by her parents Sabatino and Lena Chiaravalle, her sister Jo Guyling and her brother Fr. Dominic Chiaravalle. In addition to her husband Gene, Ann is survived by her sister Jane Siville (Richard), her children; Mona Motte Wilds (Michael), David Motte (Toni), Christopher Motte, Kath A. Motte (Ron Bohtelo), her grandchildren; Jacquelyn Pabon (Aldous), Kristin Kiefer (Kyle Somers), Sarah Kiefer, Liz, Horstman (Jason) John David “JD” Motte, Daniela Motte and her great-grandchildren Olive Pabon and Lukas Horstman.

There will be a Funeral Service held on September 26 in the Chapel at Pierce Brothers Mortuary in Westlake Village. A viewing and rosary will be held at 9am with services to follow at 10am.