Anne Carol Chambers, age 73 of Greenbank, died October 7, 2013. She was born in Phoenix, AZ on January 19, 1940, to George and Jane Judson. Her father founded the Judson School for Boys in which she took great pride and interest until its closing in 2000. When she was a young girl her father was killed in an airplane accident and her mother remarried and moved to Riverside, Calif. She graduated high school from Polytechnic High School in 1957. Anne married Allen Lee, an Air Force band musician, in 1964 and traveled with their growing family to California, Japan and Washington. In the late 1970s Anne was awarded an Associate of Arts in Veterinary Science at Ft. Steilacoom Community College which began a long career caring and working with animals.

Anne’s love for animals was more than a career for her as she was always rescuing abused or abandoned animals of all kinds. In particular, she loved horses and rode and taught dressage to adults and children with disabilities.

Late in her life Anne discovered a passion for teaching while volunteering as a math tutor in the South Whidbey Island School District. While working full time with the most difficult and hard-to-reach students, Anne was able to inspire multitudes of them to learn and persevere through their own difficulties. Although Anne earned little or no money for her work with children she often spoke of how her work with students enriched her life and how the young people she worked with gave her life newfound meaning and significance.

Anne had an incredible love for her children and her grandchildren. She was very proud that her daughter Heidi was an artist, her daughter Shawn was a flight paramedic, her daughter Laura was a mechanical engineer, and her son Aaron was an administrator at a high school. She also found great joy in the fact that all of her children were in loving relationships and had wonderful children of their own.

Anne is survived by her children, Heidi Meairs and her partner Ginny, Shawn Brooks and her husband Ray, Laura Volpe and husband Jim, and Aaron Lee and his wife Julie. In addition, Anne is survived by her grandchildren Jonathan, Jessica, Ethan, Cameron, Claire, Katerra, William, Marcus and Judson and her sisters Muffett Weizenegger, Mary Lou Jones and Mary Kay Meairs.

A private Celebration of Life was held in Oak Harbor at the Wallin Funeral Home on Friday, Oct. 11. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to WAIF www.waifanimals.org/support , South Whidbey High School PTSA SWHighSchoolPTSA@gmail.com , “S.A.F.E.” (Save A Forgotten Equine) www.

safehorses.org/?page_id=642

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