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Anne Marsden Garrigue passed away peacefully on April 17 after several months of health issues.
Anne relished meeting and learning about new people, as well as introducing people to one another, especially enjoying it when she matched people with common interests and sensibilities. She made new friends easily and had a great memory for people she had met.
She was devoted to dogs and cats, took a keen interest in all animals, and in her youth loved horses while growing up in Hyde Park, New York.
A collector of cookbooks and recipes, Anne enjoyed testing recipes to find the best recipe for a specific dish- her friends often benefited from this activity as many batches of cookies might be the result! A talented and creative cook, she generously shared her own recipes, and an original cornmeal pancake recipe of hers was even published on a cornmeal manufacturer's website.
An enthusiastic conversationalist, Anne enjoyed discussing, asking questions and even the occasional disagreement about various subjects! Insatiably curious, Anne pursued a multitude of topics that triggered her interest, ferreting out the details and pursuing answers with relentless investigation. She had a vast database of note cards with all her findings. She was an avid fan of news shows and political news, with a great admiration for Brian Lamb, host of Book notes, and Christiane Amanpour.
Her friends and family and travels early in life were a source of great pleasure. She often spoke of her wonderful biking tour through Europe with her best friends from school years and her time living and working in Paris. She loved the French language and traditions and connecting with her French ancestry.
She also enjoyed many years of living in Manhattan. Well into her sixties, she often fearlessly rode her bicycle all over the city searching for some ingredient or item she'd read about, ready to place it in her basket before returning home. She took wonderful care of her mother, the late Katharine Reynolds Cooke Greeff, in the last years of her mother's life.
The pleasure Anne derived from music led her to study the recorder and the classical guitar, and she enjoyed diverse musical genres from folk to early blues, ragtime to jazz. She enjoyed attending concerts and possessed many recordings, always glad to support musical artists. Typical of her approach to the world, a chance conversation with a talented Irish Uilleann Piper busking on Fifth Avenue led to a friendship spanning four decades, including many visits by the piper, Ruairi Somers of Navan, Ireland, to her Norwich home.
Anne loved her adopted home of Norwich VT, immersing herself in the local culture, and learning about and pursuing local issues. She volunteered for local blood drives, helped to try to improve local town government, and was a regular customer at the local Farmer's Market.
Her family is grateful to Anne's many friends who were so extraordinarily kind and helpful to Anne over the years, and especially in recent times as her health failed. Her family is particularly appreciative for the love and kindness extended to her by her neighbors Lis Flannery and Steve Garner and their daughter Alice Garner, whom Anne considered a special friend.
Anne was born in New York City on February 11, 1930 and spent her childhood at Hill and Hollow Farm, the family home in Hyde Park, New York. She attended The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, NY where she made several lifelong friends. She began her college studies at Vassar College and completed them at Columbia University.
Known by her family affectionately as "Annie," she is survived by her brother Paul Garrigue of Rhinebeck, NY, his wife Susan Van Kleeck; her nephew Matthew Garrigue and his wife Mary Alice McCann of Marana, AZ; her nephew Andrew Garrigue and his wife Mary Ellen, and grandniece Madeleine Garrigue of Richmond, VA; and her niece Elizabeth Garrigue and husband Albert Vieira and grandniece Mia Vieira of Chappaqua, NY.
A memorial service will be held at a later date, tentatively spring of 2021.
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