Annemarie “Ammer” Garrahy, 50, of Rocky Hill, passed away on November 30, 2021 after a two-year battle with Cancer. She was born in Hartford, daughter of the late Edward P. and Elaine (Jabs) Garrahy. After graduating from Rocky Hill High School and then Trinity College, Ammer set about experiencing the world through travel and wildly diverse career adventures. Her resume includes the Sierra Club, an NGO refugee resettlement program, a horse stable, a San Francisco internet tech startup, and an engineering firm where she worked as an electrical technician installing control systems on large merchant vessels in shipyards around the world. An incessant explorer, she travelled extensively through Africa, South America, Southern Europe, Central America, and Asia. While living in San Francisco, she became a proficient white-water guide, and rafted many of the great western rivers. Ammer also volunteered with the Red Cross and, while living in Portland, OR, for the Pacific Pug Rescue.
Several of her family and friends put into words how many remember her with, “a smile that lit up a room, a contagious laugh, a beautiful spirit and an infectious personality that could make anyone she met feel welcome.”
She is survived by her sister and brothers, Kate Garrahy of Rocky Hill, Edward P. Garrahy, Jr and his wife Kathleen of Seattle, WA and Patrick Garrahy and his wife Melissa of Mansfield, MA, as well as nieces Emma, Caitlyn, and Adeline, nephew Daniel, and her beloved pug Hugo. Besides her parents, Ammer is predeceased by her brother-in-law, Mike Wilcox.
A Memorial Service will be held on Friday December 10, 2021, at 11:00 am in the Farley-Sullivan Funeral Home, 34 Beaver Rd, Wethersfield. Masks required. Burial will follow in Center Cemetery, Main Street, Rocky Hill. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her name to the Pacific Pug Rescue of Beaverton, OR (https://www.pacificpugrescue.org/).