Anne Ev Burrows passed away Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, at Sharon Care Center in Centralia. She was born in Pe Ell to William and Ruth Stefon Thursday, May 24, 1928. Her family moved to Chehalis in 1936, where she finished her public education, graduating in 1946 from Chehalis High School. She went on to the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, where she graduated in 1950 with a degree in English literature and then embarked on a trip to Europe.
Anne Ev was a very friendly and thoughtful woman, an easy conversationalist with a wide variety of interests and experiences. She led a creative reading group for many years in her home. She kept a daily diary of her activities, often arising early to capture her thoughts and plans. She kept up an extensive correspondence with people she met and whose kindnesses she appreciated.
She loved to entertain friends and family, and set an elegant table, especially for luncheons and Christmas Parties. She was famous for her dinner rolls, apple pie and decorated big cut-out-Christmas cookies; her home displayed her collections of over 500 dolls and Bing & Grondahl Christmas plates.
Ann Ev was an avid traveler; she and Fremont went all over the world, and she also made other trips with friends. She made three trips to Japan, as well as England with Friendship Force and enjoyed hosting her Japanese and English friends in her home, as well as local friends for birthdays and holidays. She also attended several summer vacation events at Cottey College in Nevada, Mo.
For 31 years she managed two households in Chehalis and on Harstine Island.
She enjoyed visiting with next-door neighbors and traveling companions Todd and Ann Nogaki.
Anne Ev could often be found hiking the beach and picking evergreen huckleberries. She also loved to hike in the mountains; she and Fremont shared a fondness for Naches Peak trail on Chinook Pass. Anne Ev lived 87 years as a Methodist; she was baptized in the United Methodist Church in Pe Ell, attended the Chehalis United and Mason United Methodist Churches. She was active in the Chehalis Sunday School, youth events, and summer camp with Fremont, and married him in the Mason Methodist Church in 1980.
She was a long-time active member of the Chehalis Methodist Women who honored her in 2009 with a “Women in Mission” Award for her ministry to the church and the community.
She was also an active member of Chapter AV of Philanthropic Educational Organization and Lewis County Chapter of the American Association of University Women.
Anne Ev leaves behind her husband Fremont of Chehalis. She is survived by her three children, James, Robert and Helen Mary Williams; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; three stepsons, Fremont W., Robert and John Burrows; four step-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; and two brothers, Bill and David.
Services will be held Saturday, February 11, at 1 p.m. at the Chehalis United Methodist Church.
