Ann Heine

Ann Clopton Stiff Heine, a wonderful, loving wife, mother, grandmother and sister died on September 23, 2024, at age 69. She is survived by her husband David, her twin sons John and Nicholas and their wives Emily and Elaine, and her three beautiful grandchildren June, Henry and Brooke as well as her siblings Lawson, Elizabeth and John. She was a remarkable and gifted person who brought joy and happiness to her family and friends.

Ann was born in 1955 to Lawson Kerr and Frances Ann Stiff in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She attended Abbot Academy in Boston, Massachusetts for her high school years and went on to earn both a Bachelors and Master's degree in chemistry from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

Ann married her husband David in 1980, and they moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee where Ann was employed as a chemist for several years at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. She and her husband relocated to Atlanta, Georgia in 1985 where Ann was employed by Emory University in the biomedical field.

She left her job at Emory when she gave birth to twin boys in 1987. She and her family relocated to Albuquerque in 1988. Ann took accounting classes at the University of New Mexico when her boys began elementary school and earned her CPA in 1994. She had her own accounting practice for several years before deciding she would like to go into teaching.

Ann taught chemistry at Rio Rancho High School for several years before taking a part time teaching job at Central New Mexico Community College where she was employed until her retirement in 2018.

In addition to her professional life, she was a devoted mother who was very active in her sons' lives, helping at school events as well as Boy Scout activities. She loved her grandchildren and loved reading to them and doing arts and crafts.

She took up quilting when her sons left for college and made numerous beautiful quilts. When her first grandchild was born in 2019, she began knitting clothes and stockings for her granddaughter and subsequent grand kids. She then took up embroidery and needlepoint and became very accomplished at both. She also took up stain glass for a time and made some very decorative pieces.

Ann was an outstanding cook; she loved gardening, and she enjoyed the outdoors and often went camping with her husband in their RV. Her kids and grandchildren often joined her on her camping trips.

Ann was wonderfully intelligent and very talented in her professional and private lives. She was loving, caring and generous. We shall all miss her very much.