Ann Collins Hawes

Ann Collins Hawes died at her home on Spaniard''s Point Farm near Centreville, Maryland on February 6, 2008 of a long illness. She was 74 Ann Hawes was born in New York City, NY, daughter of Elizabeth Bodine Collins and Jackson R. Collins, Esquire, a Centreville, MD native who maintained dairy farms in Queen Anne''s County while practicing law in New York and later in Wilmington, DE. Although she was raised in Montclair, New Jersey, she spent her summers in Centreville. . Ann graduated from Montclair High School and Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia. After college, she lived in Annapolis where she was an Anne Arundel County social worker for adoptions and foster children. In 1961, she met and married Loring E. Hawes, a Baltimore lawyer with whom she raised three sons in Bolton Hill in Baltimore. She was a prize-winning needlepoint artist creating wall hangings, seat cushions, a large map, and a church organ bench at Memorial Episcopal Church (Bolton Hill). She loved listening to and playing music, including the church organ in Bolton Hill. She was a contributor and season ticket holder of the Baltimore Symphony for over 40 years. She also subscribed to the Baltimore Opera and Center Stage for many years. Ann had a lifetime interest in ornithology and served as Bird Chair for District IV of the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland. As an environmentalist, she was a member of the Audubon Society, Chester River Association, Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, Wildfowl Trust, Ducks Unlimited, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and other national organizations. In October 1997, she entertained at tea Al Gore, Senators Sarbanes and Mikulski, Congressmen Cardin and Gilchrest, and Governors Glendening and Hughes at the family farm which was chosen for the televised launch of the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Maryland. She was a superb gourmet cook whose creations and recipes were sought after. She was a devotee of Julia Child, whom she met in Baltimore at a book signing. In 1992, the family purchased a summer cottage at Sherwood Forest on the Severn River where the children were in the Club program and she spent summers in canoes, sailboats, playing bridge, and activities involving art and nature. An avid sailor since childhood, she owned a Comet sailboat which she and her husband raced in small boat regattas around the Bay. She liked tall sailing ships and visited them in Baltimore and other ports. She contributed to the Pride of Baltimore and the Sultana Project in Chestertown. In addition to her husband, she is survived by her sons Roger Collins Hawes and Jonathan Emsley Hawes of Baltimore, Maryland, Andrew Bodine Hawes of Watertown, MA, step-daughter, Karen Wentworth Hawes of Clearwater, FL, her brother J. Rosse Collins, Jr. of Centreville, her sister Ethel Collins Gates of Chestertown, grandchildren, nieces and nephews. A memorial service will held on Saturday, February 16 at 11:OOam at St. Paul''s Episcopal Church, 301 S. Liberty Street, Centreville, MD. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Queen Anne''s, Inc., 255 Comet Drive, Centreville, MD 21617 or to St. Paul''s Episcopal Church, Building Fund PO Box 278, Centreville, MD 21617.