Joan Hately Anthony

Joan Hately Anthony died peacefully in her sleep on February 6th, 2022, surrounded by loved ones in the house in Pebble Beach she called home for 75 years.

Joanie was born in Portland, Oregon, on June 2, 1926. Her father, James D. Loop, died two months later. Her mother, Maxine, remarried and moved Joan and her sisters, Jeanie and Robin, to Piedmont, California, where Joan graduated from Piedmont High School. She subsequently attended UC Berkeley and UC Davis, where she met her husbandto-be, Arthur Hately, Jr. They married on February 26, 1946, at St. Paul’s Episcopal

Church in Oakland, Ca, and moved to Pebble Beach. They settled down in a refurbished barn on the property of Arthur’s mother, Hester Hyde Griffin, and raised five children: Barbara, Pamela, Sheila, Jonathan, and Sam. Their marriage lasted 32 years until Arthur’s untimely death in February 1978. Joan married Harry S. Anthony in 1985, becoming a stepmother to Harry’s children, Lacy and Ward. They were married until his death in 2014.

Joanie was an active member of the Monterey Peninsula community throughout her life, and adored far and wide for her warmth, charm, and unforgettable smile. Her contributions to this community are too abundant to count, so we want to highlight the causes that she loved, and enduringly called her to action. In her 75 years on the Peninsula, she was a member of the Casa Abrego since its founding, and the Junior League since its inception. She was also a charter member of the Pink Ladies’ Auxiliary for Community Hospital, as well as the president of the first chapter of the Children’s Home Society on the Monterey Peninsula. She served as president of the All Saints’ Day School Mother’s Club, belonged to the Stillwater Yacht Club, the Symphony Guild, and the Stanford Club of Monterey, and was a member of the Beach Club since its founding.

She was particularly honored to serve on the board of directors for the

American Cancer Society for 30 years. Locally, she was on the board of directors for the Monterey County SPCA and volunteered for three years on the Monterey County Board for the U.S. Equestrian Team.

Joanie is survived by her five children: Barbara DuPont, Pamela Williams and her husband, Gardner, Sheila Thornley and her husband, Richard, Jonathan Hately, and Sam Hately, as well as her stepchildren, Lacy Voltz and Ward Anthony. She was known as “Gaga” by her five grandchildren, whom she adored: Hester Ware, Bain Smith, Mia Douglass, Rory Smith, and Francesca Thornley, and she simply couldn’t get enough of her six greatgrandchildren: Olivia Warr, Flora Warr, Hyde Smith, Helen Smith, Norman Thornley, and Madeleine Godina. Joanie was a doting grandmother, but a positively rotten influence on her six great-grandchildren, plying them relentlessly with sweets and treats without guilt or fear of reprisal!

She was supremely lovable, impossibly kind and gentle, warm and generous, and to the very last day of her life, just disarmingly beautiful. If there were ever a bigger sweet tooth on this earth, we never met her, but one thing is certain: Joanie is in a more heavenly place now, eating Cool Whip straight out of the tub.