Ann E. Bottelli, 79, Vero Beach
Ann E. Bottelli, 79, of Vero Beach, died in the company of loved ones on Aug. 21, 2018. 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 travelled 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, NJ.
A resident of Summit for 36 years, and of London, England, from 1968-70, 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 at Eastman in Grantham, N.H., for many summers, as well as at Hawk’s Nest in Vero Beach.
Ann met her husband, Richard, at the beautiful Jersey Shore, and together they raised four children, celebrating 60 years of marriage in June.
She enjoyed good food and good company, theater, card games, being outside, and traveling later in life.
In retirement, Ann continued to live an active life, serving on the Sea Oaks Finance Committee, and as a board member for the Vero Beach Duplicate Bridge Club. She was a skilled and passionate bridge player, earning Silver Life Master status in the American Contract Bridge League and teaching many people how to play and enjoy the game.
She loved making new friends and keeping in touch with old ones, enjoying many happy reunions with her earliest childhood friends as well as with her lifelong friends from Summit until the last year of her life.
Ann was predeceased by her parents, Clare O’Hare Erpenbeck and William L. Erpenbeck, both originally from Cincinnati, Ohio; as well as by her beloved sister, Gail O’Farrell, who lived in London. She is survived by her husband, Richard, and 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 (wife, Roberta), of Spokane, Wash.
A funeral mass will be held at Holy Cross Catholic Church, in Vero Beach, at 10 a.m. on Sept. 5.
Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the VNA of the Treasure Coast.
