Goleta, Calif. —
Ann was born in Crawfordsville, Ind., on June 17, 1932, and grew up in Oxford, Ohio, where she attended Miami University. After graduation, she traveled to Paris, France, where she worked as a model for two years and met her future husband, writer Brock Brower, then a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. After a year-long courtship across the English Channel, Brock and Ann were married at Oxford in 1956. After brief residences in New York City and Chapel Hill, N.C., where their first child, a son, was born, they moved in 1960 to Princeton, N.J., where their first three daughters were born.
In 1969, Ann and Brock moved to London for a year when Brock was assigned to to the Time-Life bureau there. Their fifth child, a daughter, was born in London in May 1970. In 1975, Ann and Brock moved once more to Washington, D.C. where Ann began a career selling real estate. After three years, they returned to Princeton, where she continued to sell real estate, play tennis and shepherd her children through college and early adulthood.
In the 1990s she and Brock moved to Norwich, Vt., where Ann took up watercolor painting, producing beautiful, detailed still lifes of bearded iris, roses, lilies, hydrangeas and more. The couple spent their last years together in the Santa Barbara, Calif. area, where Ann was able to watch her grandchildren surf, play baseball and piano and dance in the Nutcracker. In 2008 Ann self-published a memoir, Another Me, about her years in Paris. Brock died in 2014.
Ann is survived by her brother, Henry C. Montgomery III, and sister, Virginia Melin, as well as her five children — Montgomery Brower, Emily Auchard, Elizabeth White, Margaret Elkins and Alison Brower — and five grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at All Saints-by-the-Sea in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Saturday, July 2, at 11 a.m.