Ann Freeman

Ann Freeman, 88, of Mayfield, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, at Jackson Purchase Medical Center in Mayfield.

She was of the Baptist faith.

Ann Anderson Freeman was born Nov. 1, 1936, at home in Paducah, to the late Oliver and Dorothy Anderson. She and her parents, her sister, Dorothy Dean Anderson Conner and her great grandmother were in the 1937 flood where the boat they were in capsized. Four years later, the family moved to Graves County, where she attended Plainview Grade School, Lowes Grade and High Schools, Mayfield High School and Murray State College. After having worked with Bob Pay, the first Mayfield-Graves County recreation director, and also a Webb School principal, she went to work for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company on Sept. 1, 1959, retiring on July 1, 1996.

She was preceded in death by her sister, Dorothy Conner; two nephews, Steve Conner and Shane Conner; and her parents, Oliver Green and Dorothy Council Anderson.

She is survived by seven cousins.

Graveside services for Ms. Ann Freeman will be 11 a.m on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, at North Mt. Zion Cemetery. Interment will follow.

There is no visitation scheduled. Friends are asked to meet at the cemetery.

Expressions of sympathy may be made to: Mayfield-Graves County Animal Shelter, 500 N. 12th Street, Mayfield, KY 42066.

Byrn Funeral Home in Mayfield is in charge of arrangements.