Annabelle Singleton West

Anne West passed away peacefully in Loveland, Ohio on Thursday, September 26, at the age of 98.

Anne had a good life, born in Milford to her father, a lifelong baker, and her mother, who ran the household and raised their three children. Anne attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and became an accomplished pianist. She could play any musical piece by ear after hearing it once, and there was never a time when she did not have a piano in her house.

After World War Two, she moved to Washington DC and worked in a government job. It was here she discovered her love of work and independence. With the exception of the early years raising her two children, she maintained a professional job in the payroll/accounting field, had a stint as a real estate agent, and worked in HR for 12 years at Zenith during her San Francisco years.

In 1952 she married her first husband, “Doc”, and they raised two children, moving across small Ohio towns before settling in Dayton. When their children grew up and moved on to their own lives, they moved to Lockport, NY, near Niagara Falls, where Anne became a real estate broker. They had good years in New York, and made lifelong friends.

In 1982, they moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to be near their son and grandchildren, and enjoyed 13 years living near the beach in Alameda, CA. During those years, they enjoyed many trips to Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur and Southern California. In 1996 they retired to Dayton.

Anne’s husband Doc passed in 1998, and she spent the next 9 nears working as a volunteer in a local hospital in Kettering. At the age of 80, she was coerced into attending a high school reunion in Milford, where she bumped into her first boyfriend from high school, Bill Singleton. A spark was lit, they courted for 2 years, and then married. They had 16 great years together until she passed.

Anne is survived by her two children, who loved her from the beginning until the end, her husband Bill, who turned 100 this past June, her stepdaughters Tami, Cindy and Linda, who all loved and cared for her as if she were their mother. And her grandchildren, Jasmine and Lily, and her three greatgrandchildren, Branden Ella, and Ida.

A life well led.