Anne W Evans

Anne W. Evans spent most of her life in Chicago, CT, and NYC, enjoying summers in Edgartown, MA and Shelter Is., NY. While living in New York, she enjoyed working as a color consultant and a volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she spent 30 years in the Education Department and was chairman of the Division of Tours for the Disabled. She also founded the art committee at New York Hospital. She was an active member of the Cosmopolitan Club, heading various committees over the years.

Anne’s appreciation for beauty translated into personal stylishness and a wonderful sense of interior design. She traveled extensively with her husband, Dr. John A. Evans, and also made many solo visits to see her daughter, Suzie, in Auroville, India. She described herself as a “jock”, and as a youth, played on a citywide field hockey team in Chicago. Later, she enjoyed ice skating, tennis, sailing, and golf. Her other interests included gardening, cooking, and ikebana.

Anne passed on her love of jazz to her children and especially appreciated the jazz listening sessions at Skyline, her residence in Seattle. She was friendly and curious about people and didn’t hesitate to strike up conversations with strangers. Anne left her much loved New York in 2014 to be in Seattle, where she enjoyed being closer to her daughter, Alison, and son-in-law, Julian. She greatly appreciated the friends she made at Skyline.

She is survived by her daughters Suzie and Alison Odell, Julian Smedley, her grandchildren, Galen and Anica Odell-Smedley, and her brother, Ted Robinson. She was predeceased by her daughter, Laura Odell, her brother John Wilson, and her husband.