Ann Hughes

PORTLAND - Ann Drummond Hughes, 79, died February 21, 2015 in Portland. She was the daughter of Rutherford Morrill Drummond and Marcia McRonald Drummond, and was born at the former private hospital on State Street that was owned by Dr. Joseph Blake Drummond. A member of the Class of 1953 at Falmouth High School, where her father was principal at the time, she went on to college and graduate school, and in 1964 joined the faculty of Suffolk University in Boston, retiring from the English Department 36 years later and returning to Maine to live on State Street, a few blocks from where she was born. Both before and after retirement, she and her husband enjoyed a dozen trips to Europe and two to North Africa. In retirement she became a volunteer knitter for Retired and Seniors Volunteer Program, several times earning the Governors Volunteer Service Award for making well over 100 knit caps and pair of mittens for distribution to children of low-income families. For 6 years she also volunteered as a docent, guiding visitors through the Wadsworth-Longfellow House on Congress Street. In 2008 she published a book of wartime history, So Ends This Voyage, The Sailing Vessels of Trufant, and Drummond of Bath, Maine which received praise both for the writing and the extensive research. Survivors are her husband of over 50 years, Philip Russell Hughes, originally of Chicago, and their daughter, Alexandra J. Hughes, of Cumberland. She also leaves a brother, Rutherford Morrill Ron Drummond II and his wife Christy; cousins, Mark and Dick B, Marcia Sayre, John Sayre, Marcia Crockett, Peter, Mason, Margaret, Roy, Jim and Judy Drummond. She will be cremated, and at her request there will be no services. To share a memory or online condolence, please visit www.ctcrawford.com. Arrangements are under the direction of the Conroy-Tully Crawford Funeral Home, 172 State Street, Portland. Donation in her memory may be made to the Maine Historical Society, the Maine Maritime Museum or the Hart No Animal Kill Shelter of Cumberland.