Ann Grant "Annie" (Ingraham/Holmes) Reddin
Obituaries
Daily Sentinal page 6A - June 15, 2022
Ann “Annie”
Grant Reddin
May 22, 1942 - June 6, 2022
Ann “Annie” Grant
Ingraham Reddin was
born in Colorado Springs,
Colorado on May 22,
1942 to Harold Ingraham
Jr. and Florence Grant
Holmes. She passed away
peacefully on the night of June 6, 2022. She was a
woman filled with life and love. She loved deeply and
purely. She loved elephants, humming birds, polar
bears, wolves, bulldogs and most living creatures
except snakes. She had numerous bulldogs and loved
them dearly. You could hear her coming just from the
sound of her mustang. She loved to drive.
She taught herself to cook by studying books and
experimenting with healthy cooking. She made her
own tofu, whole wheat bread, and grew sprouts under
the kitchen sink. She left her children wanting nothing
more than a bologna wonder bread sandwich. Growing
up, Annie did most of the cooking and her sister, Sue,
did most of the cleaning up after her. To her last day,
Annie still cooked with every pot in the kitchen.
She attended Cottey College for two years, where she
was a competitive diver. She then transferred to Adams
State College, where she met her true love, Paul Reddin.
As a lifelong registered Republican voter, Annie was
shocked to learn the man she married was a staunch
Democrat while President of the local chapter of Young
Republicans.
She was a teacher and had an impact on countless
students throughout her forty years of teaching. She
started teaching in Baker, Oregon in 1964. The following
school year she taught at a one-room schoolhouse in
rural Rocheport, Missouri for four years while her
husband went to graduate school. Upon graduation
they moved back to the San Luis Valley, and raised
two children, daughter, Sue and son, Jed. In 1983, the
family moved to Grand Junction and Ann taught sixth
grade at Pomona Elementary. When sixth grade moved
to middle school, Ann transitioned to West Middle
School where she finished out her career in 2004. Upon
retirement she became active in the Western Colorado
Timekeepers and repaired Ingraham clocks. She then
volunteered in 2018-2019 at Dos Rios Elementary.
Ann was very proud of her Scottish heritage, even
after she had DNA testing and found she had very little
Scott blood.
Annie loved to travel. She ventured to Peru, Scotland,
England, Canada, Mexico, and Alaska. She would light
up when she saw animals in the wild. She often talked
about the Polar Bears in Canada, the puffins in Alaska,
llamas in Peru, and the kilted men in Scotland. She
even tried deep sea fishing for halibut. She was in awe
over the beauty of the world’s landscapes. She loved
the castles in Scotland. When she witnessed a glacier
calving in Alaska, she commented that it was one of her
special moments.
Ann is preceded in death by her husband, Paul
Reddin; sister, Rhoda; mother, Florence; father, Harold.
She is survived by her daughter, Sue Marrasco
(Paul) and granddaughter Ella; son, Jed (Lynnette) and
grandsons Tristan, Wilder and Witt; sister, Sue Dietrich
(Don) and nephew Bennett; nephews Damian and
Gabriel.
Services will be held Saturday, June 18, 2022 at 1:00
p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,
2235 Kingston Rd, Grand Junction. In lieu of flowers,
please send donations to Southern Utah Wilderness
Alliance (suwa.org). This was a charity she loved to
support.
Kenneth Earl Ely
November 5, 1933 - June 9, 2022
Kenneth Earl Ely of Grand Junction, CO die
