Ann C. Mann, 80; Beverly Hills Civic Activist, Columnist
Ann Caroline Mann, 80, a longtime Beverly Hills civic leader and wife of Academy Award-winning director Delbert Mann, died Wednesday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills after an 11-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
A Nashville native, she married Delbert Mann shortly after they graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1941. During the war, she worked as a reporter and feature writer for the Nashville Banner.
From 1974 to 1983, Ann Mann wrote a first-person weekly column in the Beverly Hills Post, “A. Mann’s World.”
A mother of four, she co-chaired numerous ballot initiatives that supported local education, and was active in school board and City Council elections.
In 1978, she was named Citizen of the Year by the Beverly Hills Lions Club; Woman of Achievement by the Beverly Hills Business and Professional Women’s Club; and Woman of the Year by the Los Angeles Alumnae Pan-Hellenic Assn.
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