At only 37, she had an extraordinary and adventurous life traveling the world at every opportunity, from Spain to India, southeast Asia, and the Americas. Her travels started early, when her family began annual visits to the Pacific coast of Mexico. At 16, she spent a summer in southern Spain, staying with a family and studying the language through an international living program. After graduation from Traverse City Central High School, she went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in 2011.

Anna attended grade school at the Montessori School in Suttons Bay. She graduated from Traverse City Central High School in 2006. In 2011, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Studies from Evergreen State College at Olympia, WA.

Her college years included enrollment in a program called the Mekong River Project which took Anna on journeys through the upper river basin in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The next term she studied Coastal and Marine Ecology with field sites in Thailand and Malaysia. In January of her senior year, she joined another program to study the ecosystems of the Amazon, mapping the river borderlands of Ecuador and Peru. She stayed to take an internship at the Wayquecha Cloud Forest Research Center near Cuzco, Peru. Other journeys took her to Dharamsala, India where she met the Dalai Lama, and to Guatemala and Costa Rica.

Died August 9, 2025

After graduation, Anna completed yoga teacher training in Nassau, the Bahamas, and became a certified massage therapist while working on the island of Maui, Hawaii. She lived in Puerto Rico before returning home in 2022 to focus on her health issues.

In her youth, Anna danced and performed for many years with the Dance Arts Academy in Traverse City. She attended the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp for theater and enjoyed visiting the Stratford Theater in Ontario. She was a dancer in several theater productions at TC Central, the Old Art Building, and the Northport Performing Arts Center.

Anna and her friends loved taking summer art classes at the Old Art Building. Donations in Anna’s memory may be directed to the OAB’s Capital Campaign (Old Art Building, 111 Main St., PO Box 883, Leland, MI 49654) or to a charity of one’s choice.

Anna is survived by her parents, Bill and Judy Livingston, her aunts and uncles Jim (Jan) Bardenhagen, Gary (Christi) Bardenhagen. John (Harriet) Bardenhagen, Peter (Karen) Bardenhagen, Bonnie Bardenhagen, Barbara (Jerry) Holomb, Betsy (Leroy) Winters, and Amy Liga, and twelve cousins and their children.

She was preceded in death by her uncle Robert Bardenhagen, and her grandparents Vernon (Ruth) Bardenhagen, and William (Elizabeth) Livingston.

Please share condolences and memories with Anna’s family at www.martinson.info. Arrangements are with the Martinson Funeral Home and Cremation Services of Leelanau.