University of Illinois Memorial: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Ann Widditsch
Ann Widditsch July 21, 1925 to June 17, 2014 Ann Ryan grew up in the pleasant Minnesota town of Albert Lea, not far from Lake Wobegon. She graduated from Monmouth College and the University of Illinois, earning a master's degree in English. She became a writer and editor. In the 1950s, she was an associate editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, an outgrowth of the bomb project. In 1958, Ann married the man whose name she kept to the end of her life, Bob Widditsch. They moved to...
