Mary Anne Prosswimmer
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Mary Anne Prosswimmer passed away on April 10, 2020. Born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1933, she graduated from Edgewood High School then the Registered Nursing program at Allegheny General Hospital. She married her husband of 63 years, Alan Prosswimmer, in May 1955.
The couple semi-retired to Amelia Island, FL where Mary Anne and a friend opened the Classy Needle. In 1998, she became a founding member of the Eight Flags Needlepoint Chapter of the American Needlepoint Guild. In 2009, they moved to Cypress Village in Jacksonville and became involved with forming the weekly Happy Hour, the Resident's Council and Bridge group. She also was proud that her experience with her children gave her a voice powerful enough to lead and call out group water exercises multiple times a week.
Mary Anne was a loving and dedicated mother to five very active children born between 1960-1966 (as a result she was often quoted as saying she cooked "quantity, not quality"). Not only did she spend much of the 70's and 80's driving to and from swimming and diving meets for her children, she also had a nursing career.
Mary Anne is preceded in death by her son, Randall (1961-1976) and husband, Alan (1930-2018) and is survived by daughter, Carlene Bruno (Paul) of Jacksonville Beach, FL; sons, Jeffery of Carlsbad, CA, Marshall (Richard Batting) of Fair Haven, NJ, Eric (Karen) of Jacksonville Beach, FL; her grandchildren Paul Bruno (Mandy), Matt Bruno, Siena and Tatum Prosswimmer, Carly, Amanda and Katelyn Shepherd, Camille and Randy Prosswimmer. Mary Anne is further survived by four great-grandchildren Paul Mason and Emily Bruno, and Oliver and Charlotte Lehr.
Mary Anne will be greatly missed as the matriarch of the family and for her sage and insightful advice to all who may have known her.