ANNE LONGFELLOW DICKINSON

Anne Longfellow Dickinson, 94, passed away Monday, September 30, 2013 in Northbrook, IL. She was born in Cambridge, MA at a house in Longfellow Park where she spent her early childhood. She was a great granddaughter of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Later her family moved to Boston where she met her husband to be, William R. Dickinson, Jr., a Lieutenant in the U.S. Coast Guard. She was educated at St. Timothy's School in Stevenson, MD and studied music at Radcliffe College for three years before leaving to take a job at a Polaroid factory making gun sights in 1943. After her marriage in 1945, she moved to the Chicago area with her husband where she lived in Lake Forest for over 60 years. She played the double bass in the Evanston Symphony and the Lake Forest Symphony, served on a number of Women's Boards including the Field Museum and Passavant Hospital and plied her literary and musical skills writing papers for The Coterie and arranging music for a number of groups including The Clumsy Mumsies of Lake Forest. Surviving are her 3 children, Amy Dickinson (Jim Futransky) of Libertyville, Anna (John) Warren of Metamora, MI and William (Marcy) Dickinson of Bloomfield Village, MI; 6 Grandchildren, R. Booth (McKenzie) Platt, Anne (Ryan) Barrows, Benjamin Futransky, Sita (Justin Kestler) Satyadhara, Elizabeth (Rob) Thiel and Charles Warren; 4 Great Grandchildren, William & Olin Platt and Martha & Jane Barrows; and by her sister, Helen K. Glancy. She is preceded in death by her husband, William R. Dickinson, Jr. and also by 2 brothers, Robert & Gilbert Knowles. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday, October 14, 2013 at the First Presbyterian Church, 219 W. Maple Avenue in Libertyville. Arrangements made by Burnett-Dane Funeral Home Ltd., Libertyville. Memorial contributions can be made to the Evanston Symphony, P.O. Box 778, Evanston, IL 60204, Friends of the Longfellow House, 105 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA 02138 or St. Timothy School, Attn: Office of Development, 8400 Greenspring Ave., Stevenson, MD 21153. For info: 847-362-3009 or sign the guestbook at www.burnettdane.com.