Lasting Memories

Anne MacKenzie
1925-Feb. 24, 2008
Palo Alto, California

Anne MacKenzie, 83, a longtime resident of Palo Alto, died Feb. 24.

She was born in Chicago, Ill. She received an art scholarship to the University of Southern California and a master's degree from Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1976. She studied under Richard Diebenkorn at the University of California, Los Angeles, and taught art and drawing at Cal. State Long Beach. She also taught art classes for children.

She was the sole practitioner in graphic-arts business Banyan Design and a member of the Palos Verdes Art Association.

Friends remember her as a gifted and creative artist and teacher. She is especially remembered for her work in the Palo Alto Camera Club.

She was married to Ted Shields and married the late Fred MacKenzie, an engineer with Stanford Research Institute, in 1986 and moved to Palo Alto that year.

She is survived by her children, Leighton, Leslie and Jana Shields, all of Southern California; brother, Frank Rus of Naperville, Ill.; step-children, Richard MacKenzie of California and Nancy Hambleton of Nevada; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.