May 5th 1932 – Aug. 13th 2025
Anne Hayward Kinkade was born in Seattle, WA as the first child to Stanton and Rose, while they were living in Bremerton. Her father passed away when she was only 4 years of age, so Rose moved her now two daughters to Grants Pass, OR. Anne attended elementary school in Grants Pass, but attended high school in Pullman, WA when her mother was given a job at Washington State University. Anne attended and graduated from WSU with a four-year nursing degree in 1954.
She always said that the nursing degree gave her a sense of independence from depending on someone else to take care of her. She would tell stories of working in the mental hospitals where they were giving patients lobotomies or the massive “iron lung” wards for the polio patients.
She met her husband, “Bill”, of 69 years on a blind date in her final year at WSU. They went on to have three boys.
Anne was an adventurer for sure. She had no problems packing up three boys, including a two-year-old to move to Pakistan for a year in 1963. Then they traveled through Europe for a year, mostly camping out of their new Volkswagen bus. There were numerous side trips and moves before finding ‘paradise’ in Weed, CA in 1966. As her husband taught at College of the Siskiyous, Anne worked as an ICU nurse at the old Mt Shasta Hospital on ‘A’ St. She also worked nights at the Weed Convalescent Hospital.
Anne’s artistic side blossomed in Pakistan, when she learned to play the sitar from the famous Ali-Akbar Khan. Once the family was settled in Weed, Anne was able to pursue every aspect of art that she could get her hands on. It began with throwing clay pots, spinning and dyeing sheep wool to use in her looms that took up the front room of the house, learning basket weaving from the Navajo in AZ and finally settled on painting. The painting was of EVERY medium available and then created her own with encaustic – the use of wax over canvas.
She was already beginning to teach art but wanted to reach a wider range so at age 54 she obtained her master’s degree in art from Chico State University.
Anne’s paintings are very well known throughout the art community.
As a mother, she was FUN!! She encouraged the ‘snow days’ to take off and go skiing at the old Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl. Always the first one to begin packing the jeep to hike into Bluff Lake for ice skating. It was beautiful to watch her on a completely frozen Lake Shastina doing jumps and skating backwards on her white skates. She was at every elementary school dance…..to dance, not really chaperone. It doesn’t matter if it was a two-week backpacking trip in the Marble Mountains or a week of camping at Coos Bay, Anne was always there, not to be a mother, but to be a partner, for all of us.
The last few years of her life she immensely enjoyed painting in her studio with her great-granddaughter, Violet. Her final trip on her 93rd birthday was to the Hawaiian island of Molokai. She cried when she walked out of the open-air terminal and saw the mountains of Hawaii with their lush greenery, shrouded in clouds.
She was able to pass peacefully in her family home, the Grasshopper Farm. She always said, there was nothing better than being in her and Bill’s piece of paradise.
Anne will NEVER leave any of us, but her sons Dan and Scott and sister MaryRose miss her dearly, as do her 5 grandchildren and her 9 great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her son Paul, husband Bill and sister Patty.
A celebration of life will be held on her birthday in her garden.
Mt Shasta Chapel
