On October 27, 2020, after a brief illness, Ann Perrine Bauer passed away peacefully, with her four children by her side. Ann was born in 1924 to David Bates Perrine and Fanny French Perrine, and she grew up surrounded by three generations of the Perrine family on a peach and apple farm near Centralia, Illinois. Ann attended Washington University, where she was an active Kappa Alpha Theta, met her eventual husband - Henry "Hank" Bauer, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and then taught Dress Design. Following the birth of their first child, Ann initially focused all her energy and talents on caring for their growing family and the beautiful modern home Hank had designed and built, but she later added teaching Home Economics at John Burroughs School. Ann continued to pursue her interest in the arts through advanced coursework in Art History and Archeology, as well as by serving for decades as a Docent at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Laumeier Sculpture Park, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park. She will be remembered by family and friends as an avid life-long learner, wonderful conversationalist and correspondent, active supporter of the arts, incomparable cook and hostess, terrific granny, fierce tennis player, adventurous traveler, and devoted wife and mother-truly a curious and loving soul. She is survived by her sister, Mary Perrine Johnson; four children, David H. Bauer (Joanne), S. Christopher Bauer (Kathleen), Eliza Bauer Scallet (Cid), and Nicholas B. Bauer (Elizabeth); five grandchildren, Reid, Ian, Joseph, Grace, and McNeill; and two great grandchildren, Atticus and Violet. A memorial service will be held at a time to be determined. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Laumeier Sculpture Park (The Ann and Hank Bauer Fund for Senior Arts Programs) or the charity of your choice.

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Published by St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Nov. 8, 2020.

Memories and Condolences
for Ann Bauer

6 Entries

Thomas Joy

November 14, 2020

RIP APB. Thank you for the thoughtful and caring letters you sent to me in a dark time. I will always fondly remember my second cousin.

Peggy Greene

November 13, 2020

Ann was always a delight, and staying at the Bauers was an adventure. Imagine getting up in the middle of the night to watch a nocturnal Queen of the Night orchid open, bloom, and close before going back to bed. We had jockied for the best photo shots of the plants and later compared our efforts. Another time we spent waiting for sundown and watching the home engineered waterfalls at the bottom of the hill. Ann and Hank were our kind of creative! Every meal was a feast, and your Christmas card could be of a live bird on the nest of the front door's wreath. Nobody tampered with Mother Nature at the Bauer's. What delightful fun! What treasured memories! Sleep well, wee Ann. Photographing Art in Bloom will not be near as much fun without your artful critique.

MICHELE ISAM

November 10, 2020

I was glad to work with and help out Ann for a year shortly after Hank passed. What an interesting and fun person she was. We had interesting conversations during the sometimes mundane acts of shopping for food, doing errands or buying birthday cards for her friends and family. I send her and her family love and prayers. Her energy and passion will be remembered by all who knew her.

Gloria Woodcock

November 9, 2020

My deepest condolences for the family, Ann was a kind a beautiful soul, I will remembered her as a generous and helpful docent.

Camille Martone

November 8, 2020

Sending love and compassion to all the family

Patricia Rice Hellmuth

November 8, 2020

Ann made the dullest meetings sparkle with imaginative questions. When she was giving a docent talk at the St. Louis Art Muséum or for Opéra Théâtre of St. Louis the Audi en were gives deeply researched materials uplifted by her enthusiasm for the art. At Opera Theatre docent meetings she brought delish, home
-baked treats and presented them with style. She talked about her wonderful Hank so that even before we met him we felt we knew him.

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