Anita Jean Spillane Flack

Anita Jean Spillane Flack, 91, resident of Fremont for 64 years, passed away peacefully on April 21, 2025.

Anita was born on November 18, 1933 in San Francsico, California to Daniel and Blanche Spillane. She met and married the love of her life David T Flack Sr. and they went on to have six children. She attended college where she received her bachelor’s degree, after her children were grown.

She was a devote catholic. Anita volunteered at Fremont’s first TTY center, as a teletypewriter assisting the deaf.  As part of the Restoration of Mission San Jose, she even painted the organ while a mass was going on. She worked for the Fremont Unified School District as an accountant. She was an avid reader, gardener, cook, artist, textile artist and amateur doctor.  She enjoyed singing and playing piano, which after her stroke she lost.

Anita is survived by her daughters, Mary Elizabeth Flack-Meza and Susan Marie Flack, her sons, Daniel Preston Flack, David Thomas Flack Jr., and Stephen Patrick Flack and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her loving husband David Thomas Flack Sr., her son, Christopher Anthony Flack, her sister, Norma Stagg and her brother Frank Spillane.

Services will be held on Friday, May 9, 2025, at 11:00 AM at Berge Pappas Smith Chapel of the Angels, 40842 Fremont Blvd., Fremont, CA. The burial will take place directly following the services at Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Rd., Colma.