Anne Huggins
January 8, 1947 – July 17, 2024
Anne Huggins grew up in Livingston, MT, with a strong foundation of a life best lived outdoors, exploring the wonders of nature. For the past 23 years, she shared her time between Whidbey Island, WA and Patagonia.
Anne chose a path of wide-ranging life work focused on health and wellness, educating and nurturing others, kindness and gratitude.
Anne involved herself in many ways to contribute to her beloved Patagonia. She worked at the Seed Lab, nurturing the vitality of seeds. She loved working with kids through art therapy, imaginative play, and encouraging the love of words through the Reading Readiness of Children program at the library. Anne volunteered with the Peace and Reconciliation group, mediating conflicts, individually and community wide.
Through deep listening she was drawn to heal discord where she found it. She felt great joy just sitting quietly with people through her hospice work.
Anne was endlessly curious about others. She sought opportunities to express appreciation for small kindnesses and otherwise unrecognized good deeds and often opened her home to teens without a home, to adults in need of healing, and to AZ Trail hikers needing a meal and place to rest.
She loved to build community by holding yard sales (often giveaways) of her specially collected objects, clothing, and artwork so she could share the story behind each object and watch its energy pass to another person.
Anne Huggins passed gracefully from this world on July 17, 2024 at age 77, from ovarian cancer. She was surrounded by her daughters, Jennifer and Monica Huggins, and her life partner, Dan Meyer. She felt abundantly blessed with a rich life and profound love.
Anne touched countless lives and she leaves the world a better place than she found it. Her life resonates in this Brian Andreas poem she chose as a farewell:
There are things you do because they feel right & they make no sense & and they make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other’s cooking & say it was good.
Donations to honor Anne can be made to the Patagonia Regional Community Fund.