Anna Newell Matheson

Pacific Grove Beacon, CA Nov. 21, 1997

Anna Matheson died Monday, November 3d at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula following a stroke. She was born Anna Newell MacLachlan in Ludlowville, New York, in 1908. Her family moved the same year to Tucson Arizona where she remained until she was a Mortarboard graduate of the University of Arizona in 1930 where she was a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority. She met her husband-to-be, Stanley Matheson, when both were college students working at the Asilomar YWCA Conference Grounds while she belonged to the group known as "Stuck-ups" and he to the "Pirates." They married in 1931 and in 1943 took up permanent residence in Pacific Grove. She worked for a number of years at Grove Pharmacy in Pacific Grove. She is survived by her two daughters: Marcia Norris of Cupertino and Mary Ann Matheson of Taos, New Mexico; two grandchildren, Geoffrey Norris of Salinas and Mary Ann Norris of Los Angeles, and three great-grandchildren. Private services will be held Saturday, November 14, at Asilomar.

Contributions in her memory may be made to either Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula or Lama Foundation, San Cristobal, NM.

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