Vero Beach, Fla. —
Born Jan. 4, 1939, in Newark and raised in Tenafly, N.J., Ann attended the Academy of Holy Angels and Brown University, and graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers University, earning her CPA license and a Phi Beta Kappa key as a returning student later in life.
Ann was a lifelong lover of numbers, visual arts, reading, gardening, and gathering people together. As an Accounting Director at Prudential Insurance Company in Newark, she worked with a wide range of mentors and often much younger colleagues; she traveled widely as a lobbyist for Prudential, sharing accounting principles with regulators and industry colleagues. Before returning to college, she also worked independently as a graphic designer, developing her own business as a practicing artist and calligrapher while raising four children in Summit, N.J. She was a longtime volunteer with the Junior League of Summit, the Summit Garden Club, and the New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts (where she served on the Board of Directors). An avid athlete, she was an active member of the Beacon Hill Club and the Summit Tennis Club and in retirement enjoyed playing golf and walking the trails at Eastman in Grantham, N.H., where she and her husband lived for 12 years.
Ann is survived by her husband, Richard, with whom she celebrated 60 years of marriage in June. She also survived by her children: Richard Bottelli, Jr. and his wife Ilene, of Tenafly, N.J.; William Bottelli, of Damascus, Va.; Suzanne Bottelli, of Seattle, Wash.; and John Bottelli and his wife Roberta, of Spokane, Wash.