Ann C. Wrenn

Ann Tomena (Christenson) Wrenn died at 10:20am on Sunday, 23 October 2016 at Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando, Florida. She was 101 years old. For several years she had lived at Westminster Towers Health Center, Orlando, moving there from her home at The Oaks in Deland, Florida. Her funeral will be held at 2:00 P.M. Monday, October 31, 2016 in the historic Old Rock Church in Cranfills Gap, Texas and she will be buried behind the Church in her family graveyard.

Ann, born 18 Feb 1915 in Jonesboro, Texas, was the next to the youngest child of Peter L. Christenson and Cora Rohne. She received her nursing degree from Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Waco, Texas and met her future husband, Dr. Simeon Mayo Wrenn while they were both working at the VA Hospital in Fayetteville, Arkansas; he was a surgeon and she was a surgical nurse.

Ann loved her homes, especially 610 Palmer Avenue, Winter Park, Florida where she lived most of her life. She raised her family here and was very involved in the community. She and Dr. Wrenn bought a lot on Lake Osceola and contracted builders from North Carolina to construct the home with aged bricks from old North Carolina kilns. The home was a warm and inviting place for the family and friends. To escape the Florida heat they had a summer cabin built for the family in Candler, NC in the mountains near Asheville with a distant view of Mt. Pisgah.

Ann was a calm, happy and tranquil woman who loved her flowers and her gardens. She enjoyed antiquing, refinishing furniture, needlepoint, oil painting, quilting, sewing and was proficient in all of these skills. She decorated with pale colors with an eye to comfort and ease. She wanted her visitors to feel perfectly at home. Her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren will forever remember her as being devoted to each of them, taking sincere interest in all of their activities and talents. She loved their visits and is remembered as cooking wonderful meals - particularly the roast beef dinners and the oatmeal raisin cookies. Ann's granddaughter Katherine remembers, "There are so many wonderful memories of Granny. She was a beautiful woman who had this inner light. This was evident in the sparkle in her eyes and the smile that she always wore. She was forever the gracious hostess, and always had special meals planned if we were in for a visit. She always wore a smile." There are special family memories of many summer and fall visits with her in her charming home in Hendersonville, NC.
She is profoundly missed by her children: Nancy Anne Starcher and Dr. Simeon M. Wrenn, Jr., both living in North Carolina; her grandchildren: Laura Wrenn Hirko of Florida and Todd Starcher of NC; Katherine Elliott Brown of Connecticut, Simeon M. Wrenn, III of NC; and her four great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Ann C. Wrenn's name may be sent to The Rock Church, P.O. Box 148, Cranfills Gap, TX 76637.