Mary Hiszem Anderson

passed away on Friday, July 15, 2016 at Martha and Mary Health Care Services in Poulsbo, Washington. She was born on May 25, 1939 and was 77 years of age, the same year Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz came out in vibrant Technicolor.The Hiszem family moved to California from Ohio in 1947. In 1957, Mary attended Woodbury College where she studied journalism and wrote about fashion trends for the school newspaper. She worked as a fashion model to help with tuition. In 1959 she met and married George Thomas Anderson and they had three children.Mary had a beautiful voice and loved to sing opera. She was a soprano at St. Irenaus Catholic Church in Cypress CA, St. Joe's in Lincoln, CA, and Grace Episcopal, Bainbridge Island, WA.She loved family, good food, caring for animals and spent many hours working in her rose and vegetable gardens. She was proud of her Hungarian heritage and spoke Hungarian.She was preceded in death by her daughter Anna Marie, and husband George, and is survived by her daughter Susan Anderson Bennett and grandson Eli Bennett of Bainbridge Island, WA, and Thomas M. Anderson, and grandsons Hunter and Chase Anderson of Frisco Texas. Services will be held at Grace Episcopal Church, Bainbridge Island, Washington on Friday July 29 at 3pm. Please make any memorial contributions to Metavivor.org. The Arthritis Foundation, or Grace Episcopal Church, Bainbridge Island, WA. Please sign the online Guest Book for the family.