Anna Carolyn Conners
COLERIDGE — Anna Carolyn Conners, 97, Coleridge, died Nov. 12, 2021, at Park View Haven Nursing Home, Coleridge.
Anna was born Nov. 15, 1923, in Laramie, Wyo., to John and Lillian (Nelson) Conners. They lived in a four-room log cabin in Albany, Wyo., that John had built. When Anna was 6 years old, two of God’s servants in the ministry brought the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Conners’ home. Anna’s mother embraced it at that time, and her father accepted it several years later. Anna professed to give her life to God at the age of 10. Anna and her siblings, Robert, Alma and Ruth enjoyed the mountain life of hiking, sledding, skiing and carefree summers. When Anna was a young adult, the Conners family moved to ‘The Buckeye Ranch,’ where Anna learned how to be a very helpful ranch hand through the kind and gentle teachings of her father, John. She spoke many times of how she valued working with her father while at ‘The Buckeye Ranch.’ Anna attended country school through the eighth grade and then completed a course in Practical Nursing. When she turned 21, Anna came very close to death while suffering from the flu. This caused her to whole-heartedly consider God’s plan for her life, and as a result, she offered her life for the ministry. In February 1949, Anna started in the ministry of work with her first co-worker, Hildred McRitchie, in Provo, Utah. Over the next 64 years of her life, the ministry brought her to seven U.S. states, as well as Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and areas of western Mexico. Anna adapted to the cultures of the areas she travelled, riding scooters for transportation and learning Spanish to spread the gospel to the people of the land.
In February 2013, when physical and health limitations created barriers for Anna in the traveling ministry, she became a resident of the RedBud Canyon Care Center of Guthrie, Okla. Alongside other residents that are a part of the ministry, Anna enjoyed, and contributed to, the abundance of Godly knowledge and grace fostered there. Anna, with the Bible and email on her iPad, continued to increase her faith and encourage others.
When Anna’s health needs exceeded what the RedBud Canyon Care Center was able to provide, Anna moved to the Park View Haven Nursing Home, Coleridge, in June 2021 to be close to her nephew, Rod Flaugh. She spent the last several months of her life there.
Anna was recently asked that if she were to live life over again, would she choose to go into the ministry. Anna, without hesitation, said “For sure!” Her energetic, ever-young attitude will be remembered and treasured by those who knew her.