Ann Condon Blaine, surrounded by her three children, died in the early morning hours of New Years Eve, December 31st, 2024. She was visited by most of her family for the entire last month and hours of her life, after a bout of aspiration pneumonia that she was treated for at Holy Family Hospital and recovered from in her home with Hospice of Spokane.

Ann was born on July 22nd, 1957, in Omaha, Nebraska to Jack and Carolu Condon. After a short time in Omaha and Odessa, Texas she grew up in Spokane, Washington. She attended St. Augustine's Catholic School (Cataldo) where she was an avid reader and, Marycliff Highschool where she was a skilled debater. She graduated from Marycliff in 1975.

After high school, Ann attended Creighton University where her grandfather, father, and mother also earned their medical, dental, and pharmaceutical degrees. She became a member of the Delta Zeta Sorority like her mother. She graduated with a degree in Biology, and returned home to assist in her father's dental practice for several decades until the cavernous angioma in her brain was discovered. After many years of symptoms her brain finally plateaued, and she enjoyed a quiet life in the home that she loved on Fairview Ave. Over the last fifteen years she lived in her home as well as the homes of her children in Spokane, Yakima, and Chicago, and travelled to the countries of Ireland and Italy.

She spent every summer of her life at Hayden Lake, Idaho with all her family and many winter weekends skiing at Schweitzer. From an early age and into college, Ann practiced ballet. She also enjoyed classical music concerts in Manito Park with her good friends the LeClaires. In the last years of her life, she was cared for by her daughter Libbey as well as by Rahel, LemLem, and Donelle, with whom Ann had many fond memories and outings.

She was married to Tom Blaine on July 13th,1981 in her parents' back yard on Sumner Ave; and, miraculously, only four months later their firstborn James (Matt) entered the world. A mere fourteen months later in January of 1983, her precious baby Anthony (Tony) came along. On St. Patrick's Day of 1990, Ann walked the entire St. Patrick's Day parade route with her family in the hopes that she would get to deliver a baby girl named Elizabeth (Libbey), but she arrived the next day.

All three of her children attended daycare at Pam Kennedy's (extended family member) house, Kindergarten through 8th grade at St. Patrick's Catholic School in Hillyard, and Gonzaga Preparatory School. Ann was a staunch advocate of Catholic education so was often found helping, organizing, and leading the PTA, Boy Scouts, auctions, rummage sales, fundraisers, and church ministry duties. It was a profound blessing that the day before she died Ann received her final anointing from Fr. Joe Weitensteiner who was the parish priest at St. Pat's during her children's time there.

She is survived by the father of her children, Thomas W. Blaine; Her sons Matt Blaine (Melissa) {LemLem, Shara, Taena, Miguel, Erick}, Tony Blaine (Katherine){Serenity, Alaina}; and, daughter Libbey Callahan (CJ).

She is also survived by her sister Lisa and seven brothers Mike, Mark, John, Bob, Larry, Ted, and David, along with their spouses, children, and grandchildren; as well as many cousins and her Aunt Mary Conley (Jack's sister) and Uncle Tom Neavins (Carolu's brother).

She is preceded in death by her parents John Joseph and Carolu Ann Condon, and younger baby sister Mary.

In lieu of flowers, donations and volunteering in her honor can be made to:

Dr. James R. and Bridget Condon Memorial scholarship at Creighton University
Myrtle Woldson Scholars at Gonzaga University
Meals on Wheels of Spokane
Hospice of Spokane.

To remember Ann, we ask that you pronounce words correctly, drink tea, and stay up late reading books. Her online memorial page can be found at www.holycrossofspokane.org