Ann Hawk - Funeral Service {June 11, 2022}

Ann Hawk - Funeral Service

Mrs. Ann Loraine Hawk, nee Stoltzfus, of Huntersville, passed away on Sunday June 5, 2022, at age 84 after a long illness. Ann was born on a farm in Chester County Pennsylvania, west of Philadelphia, in 1938 to the late Harold and Hanna Stoltzfus. Ann graduated from Cochranville High School and Lancaster General Hospital School of Nursing before beginning her career as a registered nurse in 1959. Ann was the cherished wife of surviving husband James R. Hawk, formerly of Christiana, Pennsylvania, whom she married on a bright cloudless Saturday, October 10, 1959, at the Christiana United Methodist Church.

Her life of service to her risen Lord and her family extant and future began by supporting husband Jim during his military service in Alabama through 1962. The blessings of son James (“Jimmy”) in 1962 and son Brian in 1967 completed the early chapters of family life. The phrase “in-law” and the prefix “grand” had no meaning whatever to our Ann since she regarded Jimmy’s wife Beth and Brian’s wife Carol as daughters and their children Julianne, Lyndy, Emily, and Wesley as her own, first and always. Ann’s siblings Vernon, Jeffrey, and Kay survive to help us remember one of God’s truly remarkable servants as she ministered to her husband, family, patients, and friends in great good cheer—always and never-ending good cheer through her entire life.

We have lost the best wife, the best mother, the best friend, the best of God’s children. Ann was also a self-made house and landscape architect, a great gardener, a good bridge player, a world traveler, a Braves fan and a loving nurse.

God bless our Ann Loraine Stoltzfus Hawk; thanks for our greatest memories and requiesant in pace.