Annie Lea Mack

Annie Lea (Breckenridge) Mack, 93, passed away March 25 at Immanuel Lutheran Care Center in Kalispell after a long and valiant battle with Alzheimer’s. She was born in Seattle on Sept. 21, 1919 to Jeff and Rinda Anna Breckenridge, and was the youngest of nine children — four boys and five girls.

Annie graduated from high school in Seattle and soon after, on Feb. 12, 1938, married Frederick James Mack who was her lifetime love for 66 years. They relocated to Colorado where Fred worked in the mines and also for the Forest Service, running a string of pack mules. After the start of World War II they moved back to Seattle and started their business doing excavation, landscaping and building rock retaining walls while at the same time working in the shipyards.

In the early 1970s Fred and Annie relocated to Leavenworth, Wash., where they purchased and operated the River Terrace Café, cabins and service station, with the hopes of becoming semi-retired. That didn’t happen. In the early 1980s, after selling their business at Leavenworth, they moved to Whitefish where they spent several summers as campground hosts at various sites on the Hungry Horse Reservoir and at Big Creek campground on the North Fork river.

Annie belonged to the Eastern Star and was a member of Green Lake Lodge and Greenwood Lodge in Seattle, as well as being a past Worthy Matron of Greenwood Lodge.

Annie was preceded in death by her husband, Fred, in 2004, her father and mother, four brothers and four sisters.

She is survived by her two sons, Fred J Mack Jr. (Fritz) and wife, Rena, of Everett, Wash., and Robert L Mack (Bob) and wife, Lynne, of Columbia Falls; eight grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.

At Annie’s request there will be no funeral service. A private memorial will be held at a later date when Fred and Annie’s ashes will be scattered and forever entwined in a special place they both loved.

The loving care and kindness Annie received the last nine years of her life at Immanuel Lutheran in Bratsford wing will forever be remembered.

In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations be made to Immanuel Lutheran Care Center.

You are invited to go to www.austinfh.com to offer condolences, share memories and view Annie’s tribute wall.

Arrangements entrusted to Austin Funeral Home