I had the privilege of corresponding with her by email, and real old fashioned snail mail.
There was a small matter that my wife and I wanted to research in the USA and Anne undertook the task for us, surprising us with her knowledge of the US immigration archives and her tenacity when confronted with stroppy / recalcitrant officialdom.
She was a truly wonderful caring person.
If I am not mistaken she was in fact a Quaker, and a fine example of that gentle and peace loving group if ever there was.
She may have departed this world, but her memory will stay alive for many many years

Souren Sarafyan

It was late April, 1999 when I joined the Cyprus-L list to write about a narrative on my first trip to the North of the island. I wasn't planning to stay for too long. I was just planning to abridge my great friend Hakan, who had hosted me there with this list, of which I had heard from Turgut. Before I completed my piece, the first list message I received came from Anne Larson. She had written about the Turkish army's actions in the South Eastern Turkey and I was baffled with her depth of knowledge. The details were even unknown to me. I tried to console myself thinking that she was most likely a Ph.D. student working on my country. I was almost sure that she was of my age since she was also quite vivid with her literary style. In order to impress her, I went over my narrative and pushed the send button. Anne replied back immediately referring to one of my comments about Cyprus. It wasn't easy to understand which neighborhood was rich, which one was poor, everyone seemed so intermingled. She said that this was what she had liked most about the island, when she had lived there during the 1960's. I was, you know, born in 1972, sort of, how do you say, disappointed. I stayed as a member of the list until May 2001. I entered, stayed and left as the most ignorant member about Cyprus and its history. Honestly, I didn't read much of the list discussions to that end. What fascinated me was the phenomenal group of great personalities who were writing there. Anne was definitely outstanding, but it is this very same fact, her being surrounded with these very nice, very learned and sometimes very quarrelsome people, underlined her uniqueness. She was the queen. Not only because of her intellectual side, but also because of her gracefulness. I enjoyed the crazy arguments, quarrels in the hottest Mediterranean/Middle-Eastern style more, because I was feeling like a naughty, sort of embarrassed child with the rest of the Cypriots, because she was watching us. I, being quite a distracter of the topics, was amazed with the tender personal relationships the members were also revealing. I wasn't able to get noticed by Turgut's mom Sefika, perhaps, but the other deities, such as Nejla, Youli, Marion and Marina were there with Anne for my admiration. I was thinking that Nejla was the princess against Anne because of their different political point of views, but I was feeling that they had that novel respect for one another. The male members of the list were also great although not as much as the females. I even liked Ray! Colin, Souren, Paris, Charalambos, Pantelis, Marios, Ismet, Peter and okay okay Hakan and Turgut were fine boys. I had to come up with tactics to be the first runner in front of them to be approved by Anne. Since I left, I haven't much learned about Cyprus. Well, what can you expect from a pragmatic engineer like me? However, I like the Greek Cypriots more than the mainlanders now, all because of this list, which is synonymous with Anne Larson. When I heard from Hakan that she was in the hospital, memories rushed to my mind. I remembered that hilarious guy (whose name eludes me now) who was putting harsh words in everyone's mouth. I remembered how Marios and I talked about circumcision, I recalled how Souren became a good friend while we were cautious with each other at first, I remembered how my emails about toilets angered Panayotis, I remembered how much I was moved by Pantelis's story about the time he was in the army. How could I forget about Peter, who knew so much and expressed himself so modestly? Haven't I realized how Hakan started considering the list a better friend over me. I thought about Andronikos, who was so critical about Turkey but forgave my once in a while pro-Turkishness because we both loved the Garden of Finzi Continis. And I remembered what a privilege it was to have received a private mail from Anne Larson. And I sent her a card with a picture of Hakan and myself from my second visit of 2003 to Kyrenia. I couldn't and now will not see her but she is the one who is again bringing me to these very good friends again, you see. Isn't this another proof that she lived for peace; she is, more than anything, a person of peace. Sleep in peace my beautiful friend Anne!

Baris Balcioglu

Anne Larson combined scholarly depth, feminene wisdom, and human compassion in all her relations with others. Her knowledge and love for all things Cypriot were profound and meticulous. I miss her wise counsel and her encyclopedic knowledge of Cypriot history.

Glen D. Camp, Professor of Political Science
Bryant University

Pantelis Mina

I have known Anne Larson for about ten years. I met her first when I joined Cyprus-l mailing list which had a profound effect on my life back then. I never had the chance to meet her face-to-face but I felt as a good friend. She always presented a well versed, well balanced commentary on the mailing list. Many times her messages contained references to an amazing collection of books, articles and papers that she read. Off-list, we talked about American foreign policy and its effects on Cyprus and the world. She has sent me numerous newspaper clippings, photocopies of book pages, contact information and knowledge. I knew her as a person who deeply loved human beings. She cared about their rights whereever they may be, whoever they may be. Her letters always came arrived with an Amnesty International address label. When I heard of her sickness, I was really sad. We exchanged many e-mails while she was sick. She had never lost her interest in life and always had hope -- that is what her e-mails relayed to me. When I sent her a gift when she could not use internet as often as before, so that she could know we had her in our thoughts, it was an Amnesty International calendar. That is when I met her daughter Meredith who worked in AI and appreciated this calendar. It was a shock to hear that she passed away. Whole Cyprus-l community expressed their sadness via countless e-mails. Meredith kept in touch with us since then. One day she asked me whether we can use Anne's collection of books about Cyprus for human rights purposes. I did not know whether we could do this at Cyprus Action Network. We discussed amongst ourselves and decided to establish "Anne Larson Memorial Library for Human Rights in Cyprus" which is open to active members of CAN and is based on the honor system. We hope that this will develop into a more accessible digital library of some sorts in the future.