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Submitted: 4/19/16 • Approved: 4/19/16 • Last Updated: 3/25/18 • R122074-G0-S3
September 2, 1949 - December 2, 2011
Virginia Anne Riser, age 62, of Metairie passed away December 2, 2011, with family at her bedside. She was preceded in death by her parents Virginia and Manning Riser. She is survived by her sister Mary Elizabeth Riser of The Woodlands, TX and her nephews Andrew Manning Colligan of The Woodlands and Adam Robert Colligan of Austin,TX. Anne is survived by her special Turner family including sister-in-law Marsha Turner Felder and her husband William Jerry Felder of Pearl River and their children Ann Felder Rasche, her husband Scott and daughter Keeley; Beau Turner Felder, his wife Aimee and son Jude; and Jane Felder Culotta, her husband Travis and their children Jade, Kayla, and Trace. She is also survived by her brother-in-law Henry Wood Turner. Anne will be remembered as Anne Riser Turner by many in the New Orleans Real Estate community.
Anne graduated from St. Martin's School and Sophie Newcomb College. She received a master's degree in Art History from Tulane University and remained active in the New Orleans arts. She was curator of the Wedell-Williams air museum in Patterson, LA, and then became a New Orleans Realtor. She served as President of the Women's Council of Realtors for Jefferson Parish and on the Board of Directors for the Louisiana Realtors Association, Jefferson Board of Realtors, and New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Realtors, as well as other local and national groups.
Anne lived in Maui for ten years, representing the artist Robert Lynn Nelson, working for the PGA tournaments at Kapalua, serving as a delegate to the 2004 Republican National convention, tutoring children, and serving as a court appointed mediator. During this time she joined the Lahaina Yacht club, serving as its treasurer and secretary of the US Navy League of Maui. Anne became a certified yacht race starter and for many years a member of the Vic-Maui International Yacht Race team. She would be at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club in Victoria, British Columbia, to help start the race and then fly home to be part of the welcoming teams as the boats spent 9-14 days sailing across the Pacific Ocean and into Lahaina harbor.
Anne traveled and lived in Europe, visited China, Cuba, and a polar bear watching center on Hudson Bay in Canada. However, her heart has always been in New Orleans. She returned to her friends of forty years in Metairie Women's Club, the Women's Guild of the New Orleans Opera Association, being a docent at the Museum of Fine Arts, throwing in Mardi Gras parades, attending Saints and Hornets games, and loving all things New Orleans.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Funeral Service at LAKE LAWN METAIRIE FUNERAL HOME, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. on Friday, December 9, 2011 at 10 AM. Friends may visit after 9:00 AM. Interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Ruston, LA at a later date. In lieu of flowers, please donate to a charity in Anne's memory.
Contributed on 4/19/16
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