A third resident at the MPTF’s skilled-nursing facility in Woodland Hills has died of complications from coronavirus, and 13 other residents have tested positive for the virus. Ten residents are cu…
, a longtime Disney animator, died today, having turned 91 on Friday. Two other residents – actor Allen Garfield, 80, and John Breier, 64, the husband of a longtime IATSE member – died last week.
“Ann Sullivan was a remarkably gifted and resilient woman who chased her dream of life in California and work at Walt Disney and succeeded with grace and resiliency,” Beitcher said in moving tribute. “This young lady from Fargo, North Dakota, followed her sister Helen to California, and after studying at the Art Center in Pasadena, landed a job at Walt Disney in the animation paint lab in the early 1950s.
“Her daughter Shannon described her as a ‘beach’ mom. She took her children, grandchildren, and friends to the beach at every opportunity. Ann loved the sun. At MPTF, the staff enjoyed taking her for walks as often as possible. She loved Nancy’s Garden, a bird sanctuary we set up a few years ago in honor of long-time advocate Nancy Biederman, and would sit peacefully there listening to the birds. Earlier in her life, she loved painting on the California coast.
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