SNOHOMISH — The city’s first woman to serve on City Council, Anne K. Eason, died April 12, her obituary states. She was 86.
Post-council, Eason was a founding member of the Snohomish Carnegie Foundation, and part of The First Tee group.
In 1970 Eason was placed on the City Council. A Carnegie Foundation biography said it was at the request of then-Mayor Payson Peterson. Eason defended her seat by winning election in 1971 and then ran for a vacated council seat in 1973 and won that, county election records show. Both races had opponents. (Fellow Councilwoman Ione Gale had vacated the seat to run for a different seat on the council. These seat swaps were among at-large seats, versus the geographic ward seats also part of council’s makeup.)
In 2023, Mayor Linda Redmon honored Eason with a proclamation for Women’s History Month.
Funeral services were April 23 at St. Michael’s Church, where she was a longtime parishioner.
