Anne Heywood, 75, died peacefully on April 26, 2017.
Annie was born in Holyoke, the eldest of three children of Carroll and Roger Heywood.
She graduated from Duxbury High School and Northeastern University, and attended William Smith College, where she discovered her love of fine art. Annie attended classes at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston while she apprenticed at Richard Lufkin Co. as an illustrator and calligrapher. After retiring from the Bank of Boston, Annie returned to Chappy Island, where she lived until her death.
Annie loved to travel, knit, hook, photograph, and paint, but her fondest memories were the summers dating back to the 1940s spent in the family’s Chappy schoolhouse on Cape Poge Pond. She loved the “Chappy life”: clamming, scalloping, sailing and beach plum jelly making – no Christmas was complete without a gift of Annie’s precious beach plum jelly.
Annie is survived by brothers Bart and Brad Heywood, nieces Brigid Bergholz and Ashley Allred, nephews Duncan and Nathaniel Heywood, and her six beloved great-nieces and -nephews.
A celebration of her life will be held at 4 pm on Oct. 7 at the Chappy Community Center. All are welcome. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Chappy Community Center.
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