Ms. Ann Marie Crowley This is Me

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1. 1. Forest Knolls barkeeper meets accidental death

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   Published on: 10/4/2002   Last Visited: 10/4/2002

   San Geronimo Valley resident Ann Marie Crowley, a popular bartender at the Papermill Creek Saloon and former director of Wild Oats Community Market in San Anselmo, died last week from an apparent accident at her Forest Knolls home. Ms. Crowley was 32.
   
   The landlord of the building where she lived on Juarez Avenue at 11:50 a.m. Tuesday found her body stuck halfway through a bathroom window when he went to the building to serve eviction papers on another tenant. She was known to use the window to reach her apartment when she was locked out.
   
   Ms. Crowley was well known within the Bay Area health food community through her long employment at Wild Oats, where she started as a deli clerk in Berkeley and finished nearly 10 years later as director of the firm's San Anselmo market.
   
   Co-workers this week recalled Ms. Crowley as immensely popular with fellow employees, suppliers, and competitors alike. Kathy Burgin, a regional director for Wild Oats who worked with Ms. Crowley in San Anselmo, credited the Forest Knolls woman's success to a combination of intelligence and compassion.
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   Thomasina Wilson, owner of the Papermill Creek Saloon, said Ms. Crowley had an uncanny gift for making friends quickly and easily.
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   Burgin remembered Ms. Crowley as a devout Catholic, proud of her Irish and Italian heritage, who was full of mischief and contagious laughter.
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   Born and raised in River Forest, Illinois, Ms. Crowley moved to the Bay Area after her high school graduation to join a pair of girlfriends. She quickly adopted the region as her home, said her sister Gina Cervone in Chicago.
   
   "You know, she liked it so much that she didn't want to come back," said Cervone, who laughingly recalled Ms. Crowley's divided loyalties whenever the San Francisco 49ers played football against the Chicago Bears.
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   Ms. Crowley is survived by her sister and brother, Frank Crowley, both of Chicago.