Hanover, N.H. — Anna Christman Horvath, 48, passed away on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017.

Anna was born June 26, 1968, in Milwaukee, Wisc. to parents Robert William and Kay (née Bauman) Christman. She was raised mostly in Green Bay, Wisc., as the eldest of four siblings. She attended Lutheran grade school and Green Bay East high school, then went on to Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. There she majored in studio art (printmaking) and art history, graduating in 1990. Evanston is also where she met and married Michael Thomas Karl Horvath. Their courtship lasted just six months from start to finish, with only a few weeks from introduction to engagement. Anna worked in a bakery and in marketing and graphic design before becoming an AMI certified Montessori teacher.

Between 1994 and 1998 Anna and Michael welcomed 4 children (one boy and three girls) and moved twice, first to California and then to Madison, Wisc. In 2000 they moved again so Michael could accept a faculty position at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. Anna loved the community she found in Hanover, and it became the family’s permanent home-base. At the end of 2001 the family made the decision to home-school their elementary-aged children and built a ‘schoolhouse’ barn on their property. For the next eight years Anna, with Michael’s help, made this her occupation.

In 2010 Anna returned to school again, first to study bookbinding at the North Bennett Street School and then to pursue art and printmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, both in Boston. As the children left home, their positions in the barn were taken by printing presses, and making artist’s books became Anna’s work.

In 2004, when Anna was 35, she received her first diagnosis of breast cancer and underwent six months of treatment. After a new cancer diagnosis a year later and more treatment, the cancer remained in remission for many years until it returned in the fall of 2013 as metastatic disease. Throughout her illness she worked hard to continue being an artist, mother, wife, sister, and friend, which were priorities of hers all along. She approached this stage of her life with grace and strength, and she believed with every fiber of her being that death would take her to her final and eternal home with her Maker. Her diagnosis reminded her of all she had to appreciate; hers was a blessed life.

Anna is survived by her husband of 25 years, Michael; her children, Emmett, Magdalena, Natalia, and Muriel; parents, Robert William and Kay Christman; siblings Robert John Christman, Laura Christman Rosenberg, and Eleanor Christman Cox, and their families; maternal grandmother, Zelma Bauman; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, and in-laws across the globe.

A service of Christian burial will be held on Thursday, March 2 at 2 p.m. at Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth Campus. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Upper Valley Haven (713 Hartford Ave, White River Junction, VT 05001, or online at www.uppervalleyhaven.org), an organization in whose mission Anna believed deeply and to which she dedicated her time as a board member and volunteer.

To view an online memorial and or send a message of condolence to the family, please visit www.rand-wilson.com.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Rand-Wilson Funeral Home of Hanover.

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