{"id":1148,"date":"2020-11-05T13:17:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T18:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.sommervillefuneralservice.com\/dev\/?post_type=obituaries&#038;p=1148"},"modified":"2020-11-09T18:19:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T23:19:23","slug":"annie-b-fitch","status":"publish","type":"obituaries","link":"https:\/\/dev.sommervillefuneralservice.com\/dev\/obituaries\/annie-b-fitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Annie B. Fitch"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":1157,"template":"","class_list":["post-1148","obituaries","type-obituaries","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"sunrise":"January 12, 1938","sunset_date":"October 25, 2020","obituary":"<p>Annie Belle (Ann) Fitch, 82 passed away Sunday October 25, 2020. Ann was born in Yantley, Alabama on January 12, 1938. As a young adult, she attended beauty school in Cleveland, Ohio and received her cosmetology license which started a very successful business career. She began her career at Johnny Barham salon until she opened her first salon; Eastland Hair Fashion. Later she opened another salon Shear Pleasure all while holding a high ranking position as a Ohio state cosmetology Inspector for over 25 years, traveling all over Ohio and attending numerous conventions. If you were in the cosmetology business; you knew Ann Fitch! Ann retired as a state inspector and began her second career with Akron city school system as a crossing guard for the next 5 years.<br \/>\nAnn was a very active lady! She was an active member of Mt Zion church nurse ministry, a member of the Ohio Association (OAB); also known as the Glamorettes. Phoenix Chapter no 96 order of the Eastern Star; Al-Kaf Court no. 144, The Daughters of Isis, Heroines of Jericho Court No. 5 and Golgotha Guild No 5. In 2003, she was recognized by the National Beauty Culturalists League for her loyalty, service and faithfulness.<br \/>\nPreceded in death by her parents Willie and Virginia Fitch; her loving daughter Demetrius (Mickey) Bickerstaff, brothers Lee John (Hot Rod) Fitch, Willie (Buster) Fitch, James Fitch; sisters, Ada Stone, Lillian Townsend, Ruby Porter, Ruth (Tank) Clark, and Julia Hubbard.<br \/>\nShe is survived by her brother Peter Fitch, granddaughters, Tenika Fitch, Dawn Bickerstaff, special great granddaughter Dominique Fitch and several other great grandchildren. Special nieces Barbara Haley and Dessie Townsend-Lee and a host of other family and friends.<\/p>\n","Image":false,"funeral_location":"Sommervile Funeral Services, 1695 Diagonal Rd, Akron, OH 44320","funeral_service_date":"","viewing_time":"","service_time":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sommervillefuneralservice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obituaries\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sommervillefuneralservice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obituaries"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sommervillefuneralservice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/obituaries"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sommervillefuneralservice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sommervillefuneralservice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}