We all love and miss you Nanny.Anne Worth nee Catherine Anne Denzler of Cutchogue and later Ft. Pierce Florida died on September 5 at the home of her daughter Sue Worth Feleppa in East Hampton. She was weeks shy of her 86th birthday.
Born October 2, 1922 in Cutchogue NY, Anne was one of five daughters of Albert William Denzler and Anna Helene Gee. She graduated from Southold High School in 1940 and attended Wanamaker’s Beautician School in Manhattan. After studying the craft that she would practice throughout her lifetime and some stints as a hand model, she returned to Cutchogue to marry her high school sweetheart William Wilson (Bud) Worth who was serving in the Navy immediately after Pearl Harbor.
Her husband of 53 years predeceased her in 1994; and she lost her two sisters, Kathleen Foster of Port St. Lucie FL and Margaret Helene Bush of Greenport NY during the past thirteen months as she courageously battled cancer.
Anne and Bud raised two daughters and a son on the North Road and later Wells Avenue in Southold, all of whom survive her: Lilian Anne (Bonnie) Rose Wilcenski of Sidney Center, NY; Sue W. Feleppa of East Hampton NY; and William Wayne Worth of Los Angeles CA. She is also survived by two sisters: Mary Patricia Foley of Cortland NY and Eileen Walters of Southold NY; plus eight grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
A piece of local history: While Bud Worth was working at Grumman Aviation on the Apollo Lunar Module (lem) that would bring man to the moon, Anne was at home in her kitchen pleasing her customers with perms and rinses or baking her scrumptious apple pie for the night’s dinner table.
A loving mother, wife, and volunteer, Anne was devoted to her family, speaking often of the classical piano music that her mother played, or of her dad who cooked the two o’clock Sunday roast, or of the wonderful years dancing the Peabody or Lindy with her husband. Her white hair beautifully coiffed and her smile distinctively warm, Anne was most enthusiastic about her plants and flowers, her birds, her chocolates, her CC, and her ability to lay down devastating hands of Bridge and Cribbage.
A mass will be held on Wednesday September 10 at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Southold, with a graveside memorial immediately following. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of DeFriest Grattan Funeral Home in Southold.
The family asks in lieu of flowers that donations go to your favorite charity for children.
(Picture taken and obituary prepared by my father, Richard Feleppa - September, 2008)
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