Anne Mahar Hussey

I first met Anne in the late 1980s, when I was Executive Director of Mid-Fairfield Hospice (MFH) in Norwalk, Connecticut. She was one of an extraordinary group of hospice volunteers. Her compassion and dedication to our patients and families were exceptional. We had both previously worked in publishing, and this quickly led to a friendship that lasted as long as she lived.

Even though I moved on from MFH in 1991 to a larger hospice in Maryland, our MFH team became and remains a...