Anne was one of my best buddies in our younger years. We played competitive softball together. I have so many fun softball stories I still remember vividly. Anne was so competitive and had the meanest arm around. Playing burnout with her was out of the question. We were also on the University of Memphis (Memphis State) tennis team together. We thought we were hot stuff. My older sister played double tennis in a ladies Germantown league just for recreation. She asked Anne and me to play her and her partner. We thought we would go show them a thing or two. WRONG! We tried to overpower them with our ground strokes but their little dinky-well placed shots were too much for us. We were so embarrassed being beaten by some Germantown ladies who weren’t the athletic types at all.
Anne was a great athlete and a wonderful person. She was kind to everyone she met. Anne had only one fault I can think off. She was she was so hard on herself. We all saw her as pretty darn great at whatever she did. We will all miss her. If Jesus has a softball team in heaven Anne is right there all smiles. She knows on this team there will no errors or strikeouts. A perfect game every time.
