Ann Kendrick Horan

Ann Kendrick Horan, 56, died peacefully on June 3, 2023 at the McClure Respite House in Colchester, Vermont from complications of colon cancer. She was born on May 22, 1967 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Gail (Tidd) Kendrick and David Kendrick, and lived most of her life in Austin, Texas where her father was a professor of Economics at the University of Texas, Austin, and her mother was a child psychologist. She graduated from Kirby Hall in Austin in 1985 and attended Wellesley College before graduating from the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas, in Austin 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. After graduation she moved to Washington, D.C. where she worked at CNN and as a staff member of the Congressional Commission on Children. She met her husband John Horan M.D. in Washington, D.C. who was completing his residency in Urology at Georgetown University Medical Center. They moved to Austin, Texas in 1991 where John joined the urology practice and where they married in 1992 at All Saints Episcopal Church.

Ann was admitted to the Counseling Psychology program in the Department of Educational Psychology. University of Texas, Austin in the fall of 1992 before eventually transferring the Graduate Program in Architecture and Historic Preservation at University of Texas, Austin in 1994. With her friend and business partner Catherine (Holder) Prather, she spent the next several years happily buying, renovating and selling older residential properties in Central Austin. Ann and John bought the Covert House in the Hyde Park neighborhood in Austin and after she directed the renovation and restoration, it became their private home. In recognition of her work in preserving the Covert House, she won the Austin Heritage Society Award in 2001. In 2015, her husband joined the urology practice affiliated with the University of Vermont of Vermont Medical Group and she spent the rest of her time between Montreal and Montpelier, Vermont. She was diagnosed with colon cancer one year ago and was treated by the Medical and Radiation Oncology Departments at Central Vermont Medical Center.

She is survived by her husband John Horan M.D.; her daughters Callan Horan and Amelia Horan; her father, David Kendrick; her brother Colin Kendrick, his wife Allison (Oberle) Kendrick, and their children Max and Syd Kendrick. She was pre-deceased by her mother Gail Tidd Kendrick.

Ann loved studying buildings, design and architecture and was skilled in creating beautiful living spaces for her family. She also enjoyed traveling with her family throughout the US and Europe with trips to London, Paris and Biarritz being among her favorites. She grew attached to Colorado and particularly enjoyed spending time there in the summer months. She had a very generous spirit and passed that attribute to her daughters. Although she spent the majority of her life in Texas, and missed the wide- open skies of that state, she grew to love the green, quiet spaces Vermont offered. The family would like to thank Jesse Moore M.D. at the University of Vermont Medical Center for his surgical expertise as well as the gracious, kind, and compassionate nurses and staff at Central Vermont Medical Center. Additional thanks to the department of Palliative Care at Central Vermont Medical Center. Memorial Contributions may be made to the McClure Miller Respite House, 3113 Roosevelt Hwy, Colchester, Vermont 05446.