Ann Lester Farris, age 88, a longtime resident of Laguna Beach, passed away on November 18, 2023. She was born Elizabeth Ann Lester in Houston, Texas, in 1935.
The Pageant of the Masters was in the midst of auditions in May for the first performance of the summer. Several of our artist friends, Andrew Wing, Dion Wright, Leonard Kaplan, and my husband Robert Tanner McCarron, were deciding if they wanted to enter a juried showing of their paintings and then have to pay for a booth on cold concrete to display their art.