Ann Catherine Boron Rhys
1958-2020
Ann Catherine Boron Rhys succumbed to breast cancer November 3rd in the loving arms of her husband George Carter Rhys and her daughters Julia Nancy Rhys and Angela Carter Rhys. She is also survived by her mother, Marilyn Jardine Boron; six sisters: Peggy Boron Downs, Mary Jo Widing, Suzette Marie Cass, Fabienne Marie McGeever, Stefani Noelle Brown, and Jennifer Lynn Schaeffer; and brother Andrew Bernard Boron. She is preceded in death by her father Peter Edward Boron and two brothers: Stephen Alan Boron and Joseph Peter Boron, with whom she anticipated a joyful reunion. Ann dearly loved her siblings and attended their celebrations and those of her nieces and nephews whenever she could far and wide across the country. Her family will miss her terribly.
She loved to walk the winding dirt roads of her home near Agua Dulce, California, in the predawn light every morning, three miles plus. The neighborhood mountain lion didn’t scare her, but a concerned friend made her a huge knife, which she never carried. In Canyon Lake, Texas, she walked the length of Canyon Dam and back, but those 1.8 miles were not enough and she finished with the steep hills of her neighborhood. Ann adjusted well to living in sight of other houses, and happily befriended her neighbors and enjoyed the seasonal parties.
She joined the local library’s reading group and actually read the books, ready to discuss at the meetings. And she was a faithful parishioner at her church.
Ann loved sunflowers. Though she asked one Christmas for a vacuum cleaner and the next Christmas for a slingshot, you could never go wrong with a gift picturing sunflowers on a blanket or a pillow or a plate. Ann agonized over and overcame anxiety at every forward step of her life. She loved numbers as a small child and worked her way from a temp for an accounting firm steadily upward to controller for two hospitals in Los Angeles, and finally controller for Rush Truck Insurance Services in San Antonio, Texas. At each new level she pushed through fears of inadequacy to become highly competent, well-respected, and loved. She underwent similar evolutions in nearly all she undertook — facilitating gospel study at her church, earning her bachelor’s degree as a returning student, even new motherhood. And she died with dignity and courage.
Ann’s life will be celebrated at a memorial service at St Thomas Catholic Church, 180 St Thomas Dr., Canyon Lake, Texas at 10 a.m. November 13. Her California funeral will be held at St Clare Catholic Church, 19606 Calla Way, Canyon Country, California at 6 p.m., November 18. She will be interred at Eternal Valley Memorial Park, 23287 N Sierra Hwy, Newhall, California at 11 a.m. on November 19th.