Ann Elizabeth Greene Cole died on November 2, 2026, and is remembered by her family and community.
Born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, on December 9, 1935, she was the youngest child of Arthur and Kathryn Greene. She outlived all five of her siblings: Arthur, Joan, Carol, Dick, and Bob, alongside her husband, S.P. (King) Cole, who passed away in 2013.
During her youth, her relatives held a summer residence on a Derry, New Hampshire strawberry farm, providing days filled with labor alongside family members and baking strawberry shortcakes with her mom. Later, she worked in downtown Boston at an advertising agency and also worked as a model.
She met her husband, King, through sailing.
The couple traveled extensively throughout their retirement, journeying through Hawaii, Greece, Rome, the Panama Canal, and taking a trip around the world in the late 1970s that stopped in India, Japan, and Guam. When cruising to St. Lucia, she always brought gifts from the United States for local women who awaited her arrival each year.
At home, Ann was an exceptional cook and an early adopter of vegetarianism in the late 1970s. In her 40s, she launched a silk flower arranging business, running it independently for over three decades by supplying local businesses across Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
Her survivors include her three daughters—Kim Cole of Salem, NH, Candace Cole of Dover, VT, and Coral Cole Teza of Encinitas, CA—along with two grandchildren: grandson Cole Teza and granddaughter Jacquelyn Teza, both of San Francisco, CA.
Services are under the care of Douglas & Johnson Funeral Home, 214 Main Street, Salem, NH, with a celebration of life and dedicated mass service planned for the spring.
