Anne L. Spano
June 7, 1942 ~ September 23, 2022
Anne L. Spano, age 80, of Grand River, Ohio passed away suddenly on September 23, 2022 surrounded by her husband of 60 years. She was the oldest child of Mary and Charles D’Ambra.
Anne grew up in Oxford, NY and graduated from Oxford High School with Honors. After high school, she attended Alfred University. She went on to receive her undergraduate degree from Notre Dame College and an MBA from Lake Erie College.
Anne retired from Applied Industrial Technologies where she was Director of Vendor Relations. She was a recipient of The Greater Cleveland Women of Professional Excellence Award in 1997.
In retirement she and her husband, John, toured 51 countries and 49 states.Anne was an accomplished artist and won several awards for her landscape scenes. In addition, Anne was excellent in rug hooking. Her rugs were featured in several rug hooking magazines and articles. In addition, Anne found time to read five books each month.
She volunteered at the Morley Library and Pug Rescue of Northeast Ohio. She and John rescued six pugs and adopted four. Anne was a member of Fairport Harbor Museum, Fairport Senior Center, Morley Library, and several food pantries.
Anne is survived by her husband John; son, John Jr.; daughter, Lisa; sister, Elaine; brother Charles; a niece, Clarissa, and several cousins.
Friends and family will be received on Friday, September 30, 2022 from 4 to 7 at the Behm Family Funeral Home at 26 River Street, Madison, Ohio. A funeral Mass will be held at Immaculate Conception Church, 2846 Hubbard Rd, Madison, OH on October 1, 2022 at 1 p.m. Burial will be at an alternate date.
The family suggests in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to Morley Library or the Lake County Humane Society in her name. Online obituary and condolences can be viewed at www.behmfuneral.com.
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John and family condolences to all I was sent to the Behm website to see if I knew someone else when I saw this and felt I needed to give my condolences as I am no longer in the area You always made a point to chat whenever we ran into one another My deepest condolences as Ann will be missed Sending hugs 🫂 Joan
My sincere condolences to the Spano Family. Anne was kind, smart, funny, talented and always had a smile. She was a special person and is missed so much. I will remember you always.
My heartfelt condolences to the family and to my dearest friend , her daughter Lisa.
While I never had the pleasure of meeting Anne personally, I wish I had the opportunity of meeting her.
May the memories give you peace, and stay in your heart forever.
John,
Marge and I are so sorry to read of Anne’ passing. She was such a wonderful neighbor. We enjoyed the evening we spent at the condo on the lake. One memory I have ,is you were out of town and we had a wind storm and limbs fell. Here was this petitie lady was outside trying to remove them and I came to the rescue and helped her
I am sorry I cannot attend calling hours, my thoughts and prayer are with you and your family
Frank
I met Anne while volunteering with the Friends of Morley Library selling raffle tickets for the annual basket raffle. She told me about her many travels oversees and her love of dogs, especially pugs. When the library reopened after Covid she volunteered every Tuesday where we worked together with the rest of the volunteers to get the Bookshop ready to reopen to the public. Sadly, she had to stop volunteering to take care of husband who was ill. She will be missed by all. My condolences to the family.
We met Anne & John by chance on a Mekong river cruise 10years ago. We struck up an instant friendship and spent most of the vacation together. Although at the end we went our separate ways, us to the UK and them back home, we remained in touch sharing our life dramas via email . Anne had the funniest sense of humour and we shared many special moments but in particular Anne used to look out for funny signs and shop names especially those with bad spelling and we laughed at these for hours on end . Her memory will live on with us through new signs we find and she will also be missed as a very special friend from across the miles. Our sincerest condolences to all her family.
With deepest sympathy.
We were so shocked to hear of Anne’s passing away John. Our heartfelt condolences go out to you & your family. We have missed & thought of you often since your leaving our Sturgeon Point family. We will try & attend the calling hours on Friday ❤️🙏 Debbie & Al Schrader
My sincere condolences to John and family. I met Anne a number of years ago through our shared interest in rug hooking and always enjoyed her company. I have many fond memories of good times shared. I particularly enjoyed her sharing stories about her families heritage from the island of Lipari and a wonderful sense of family and history. She’ll be missed.