Anne Jones Hall, M.A., C.N.S

Anne Jones Hall, M.A., C.N.S., died Thursday, July 23, 2026, at her home of 58 years, in Danby, VT and her family was at her side. She was 90.
She was born May 11, 1936, in Salamanca, NY, within the Allegany Territory of the Seneca Nations, the daughter of Rollin Lee and Dorothy (Hutchins) Jones.
Anne grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in Vermont, attending Syracuse University where she pursued pre-law studies. For 10 years she had a successful modeling career in New York City.
In 1968, she moved back to her beloved state of Vermont and settled in Danby, where her focus turned towards the importance of proper nutrition as it relates to overall health and vitality. Her interest in nutrition education became the focus of her career, and in this specialty, she tirelessly researched, studied, advocated and taught over the next 50 years until the time of her passing.
Anne entered into nutrition leadership when the Vermont Department of Education invited her to design and teach a new Living Arts class for teens, which she did at Manchester Elementary School in the 1970’s, while also earning her B.A. at Skidmore College in 1973 and her M.A. in nutrition and food policy from Goddard College in 1976. She later became a Certified Nutrition Specialist (C.N.S.) and developed an international reputation for her work involving nutrition, energy and endurance.
Anne continued to be known for her activism in the nutrition world. She founded and directed CABOL, (the Consumer Association for the Betterment of Living), a national consumer organization devoted to improving food recommendations. Supporting George McGovern’s Senate Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, by 1975 CABOL’s annual international conferences brought together leading health authorities and provided a forum for challenging the nutritional status quo, and examining emerging ideas about food and health. Her work also brought her into the public eye. In 1975, Vermont Educational Television featured Anne as the writer and host of a television series devoted to nutrition, among the earliest programming of its kind. She continued to lecture, teach and participate in professional conferences nationally and internationally.
It was through that work that Anne met Dr. Ross Hume Hall, the man who would become both her husband and an intellectual partner in her life. While organizing CABOL's 1975 annual health conference, she invited him to speak about subjects related to his influential book, Food for Nought: The Decline in Nutrition. A Canadian biochemist, author, nutrition critic and environmental health advocate, Ross shared Anne's deep concern for the relationship among food, human health and the environment. They married in 1977, and lived in Hamilton, Ontario. Together they founded and directed The Entropy Institute, developed for interdisciplinary nutrition education and published The Entropy Institute Review, which assisted professionals in making food recommendations to their clients.
As Anne’s work evolved, she developed an interest in physical recovery, energy and athletic endurance. She worked with athletes, coaches and university programs, including the Syracuse University Men’s Crew Team in 1985, and served as nutritional advisor to Canadian Olympic figure skater Brian Orser. Her expertise later took her to Kyiv, Ukraine, where she was invited to speak at the International Congress on Modern Olympic Sports in 1993 and again before the Medico-Biochemical Committee at the First International Scientific Congress on Modern Olympic Sports in 1997. There she presented her work on food training for energy, endurance and athletic performance.
Her later work continued to focus on energy, athletic endurance, and weight management emphasizing the body’s own fat stores as a source of energy. Her passion for these subjects— and her desire to educate others about what she had learned—remained with her throughout her life.
Anne’s curiosity extended beyond her professional work. She and Ross traveled extensively together throughout Europe and following his death she continued to travel with her children. She made it a personal goal to travel somewhere new at least once each year.
She was an accomplished decorative painter, talented seamstress and knitter, enthusiastic home renovator and devoted homemaker. Over the 58 years she lived in her historic Vermont home, Anne renovated and cared for the house and barn with extraordinary energy and imagination. She took great pleasure in creating a beautiful home and landscape and in living at the foot of the Green Mountains, surrounded by the natural beauty of Vermont she loved so deeply.
One of the great pursuits of Anne’s later life was genealogy. She spent years tracing family lines, collecting historical records, building an extensive family tree and visiting ancestral places. Her genealogical work led her to membership in several heritage organizations, including the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Mayflower Society, the Baronial Order of Magna Charta and the Piscataqua Pioneers, honoring descendants of the early settlers of the Piscataqua River basin. Anne left behind more than an extensive family tree. She left her family a record of where they came from, a deeper appreciation for the lives that shaped them, and a legacy of curiosity, learning and discovery for the generations who follow.
Anne was predeceased by her husband, Dr. Ross Hume Hall.
She is survived by her children, Anne Agura of Arlington, Texas, Margaret French of Virginia Beach, VA, James Haas of Montpelier, VT, Stewart Hall of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Donald Hall of Ottawa, Ontario and Mary Beth Bezzina of London, Ontario; as well as their spouses and 14 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
A gathering of family and friends and graveside service will be held on October 10 at Maple Grove Cemetery in Mechanic Falls, Maine, where Anne’s cremated remains will be laid to rest. All who knew and loved Anne are warmly invited to attend and celebrate her life.