Anne Frances Eldredge Harris of Cokesbury Village in Hockessin, born in 1918, died February 23, 2012. She was the widow of Edward Hooper Harris, Professor Emeritus of Tulane University, who died in 1982. Anne is survived by three sons and their wives: the Rev. Mark and Kathryn Harris, Christopher R. Harris and Kathy Farmer, andContinue Reading
Anne Frances Eldredge Harris of Cokesbury Village in Hockessin, born in 1918, died February 23, 2012. She was the widow of Edward Hooper Harris, Professor Emeritus of Tulane University, who died in 1982.
Anne is survived by three sons and their wives: the Rev. Mark and Kathryn Harris, Christopher R. Harris and Kathy Farmer, and B. Hooper and Ellen Rains Harris; three grandchildren, Matthew Pierce Harris and his wife Kellee, Stephen Andrew Harris, and Emanuela Harris Sintamarian; and two great grandchildren, Lily Anne and Luke Harris.
Anne studied Child Development at the University of Alabama, and Art at Tulane’s Newcomb Art School.
Anne was an active artist who was a member of the Napoleon Art Gallery in New Orleans for 12 years.
For many years Anne showed her art work on her web page at Art Net On Line which brought her international acknowledgement. Her work for the last 20 years has been to document the aging process, has been used extensively by the Huffington Center of Aging at Baylor College of Medicine. Anne also participated in many art shows throughout the South and as well as in galleries in Milton and Newark, Delaware.
Anne was a life-long volunteer working in art: in New Orleans with children from St. Paul’s Episcopal School, Cuban refugee children and vacation neighborhood groups. She taught pottery at Newark Center for Creative Learning, and did art with memory impaired patients of the Sussex Wing at Cokesbury Village.
With her engineer husband, Anne lived from Connecticut to Venezuela in 11 different locales, always with vacation homes in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida and Bay St. Louis Mississippi.
Anne has been a life-long Episcopalian and a member of the Mayflower Society. She has also been a member of the Art Net Collective and a contributing member of the Huffington Center of Aging.
A Memorial service will be held at the chapel at Cokesbury Village at 2:30 PM on Saturday, March 3, 2012. Instead of flowers, donations can be made to the Cokesbury Community Church, 726 Loveville Rd. Hockessin, DE 19706.
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