Service Honors Memory Of Pasadena Volunteer Anne Forve Neville

LOS ANGELES, CA — Friends and family celebrated the life of Pasadena native Anne Forve Neville Friday at a service at St. Andrew Catholic Church.

Forve Neville was a long-time volunteer at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, and this past year received her 50-year service award from the Diggers Garden Club in Pasadena, according to her obituary in the Pasadena Star-News.

Born in 1930, Forve Neville died Jan. 16 at the age of 87.

“Anne died with grace and surrounded by people who loved her at the Huntington Memorial Hospital after a short illness,” according to her obituary. “After attending Scripps College, she left for adventures a home and abroad, including time in Wiesbaden and Paris, where she worked as a secretary for the U.S. military and mingled with artists and jazz musicians in her spare time. Returning home, Anne worked in San Francisco and for many years at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.

Anne and John T. ("Tugger") Neville eloped in 1961, surprising family and friends, spent their honeymoon on a freighter, and were happily married until his death in 2001. Their family was completed by their joyful adoption of their son and daughter, Sam and Kate. Their home was never without at least one dog, and they spent holidays and summers sailing the Channel Islands.”

Forve Neville is survived by her children and Sam and Kate Neville, their spouses Deborah Neville and Brent Hinson, and her grandchildren Sarah, Mary, John and Ruby.

The family us asking friends to donated to: Arlington Garden, The Pasadena Humane Society, or St. Andrew Church lieu of flowers.

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