Pickford, Ann Hunt

Ann Hunt Pickford, 93, of Cottage Grove Place, died Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Memorial services: 11 a.m. Monday at Christ Episcopal Church. The Rev. Martha Rogers will officiate. Private family inurnment: Oak Hill Cemetery. Cedar Memorial Park Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Survivors include a son, John (Karen) of Chicago; and two daughters, Elizabeth (Craig) Schreiber of Lakewood Ranch, Fla., and Louise Pickford of Cedar Rapids. She is also survived by three grandchildren, Peter Pickford Schreiber, Sarah Finnell Schreiber and Kate Ingram Pickford.

She was preceded in death by her husband, David.

Ann was born May 19, 1920, in Fairfield, the daughter of Walter Danielson Hunt and Hazel Louise Martin. Ann graduated from Milwaukee Downer College and later worked at J.W. Robinson as a buyer in California. She married David Blystone Pickford on April 19, 1946, in Fairfield.

Ann was a member of Christ Episcopal Church, a board member of the Cedar Rapids Children's Home, White Cross Society, the Marvin Cone Society, Junior League, Monday League and the Cedar Rapids Country Club. Ann and her husband, David, were one of the original investors of the Keystone Ski area in Colorado.

Memorial donations may be given to the nature center, the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art or the charity of the donor's choice.

Please leave a message or tribute to the Pickford family on the Web page, www.cedarmemorial.com under Obituaries.

The family would like to express their gratitude to Ann's caregivers.

Published June 14, 2013 in The Gazette