Loretta Armer

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Loretta Armer

August 11, 1938 – May 24, 2024

Loretta Armer, also known to those who loved her as Loretta Jane, Mom, Grammaretta, Anty, Lil, and Dove, died peacefully at her home in Santa Fe, NM, on May 24, 2024, with her daughters and granddaughters at her side. Before moving to Santa Fe, she resided in Tallahassee, FL, from 1979 to 2001, and before that in Bloomington, IN.

The oldest of five children born to a Serbian-American coal miner father and Irish-American mother in western Pennsylvania, Loretta was a devoted daughter, sister, mother, aunt, grandmother, and great-grandmother as well as an amazingly curious and creative psychotherapist and yoga instructor who worked with cutting-edge thinkers and practitioners in the fields of death and dying, body-mind-spirit, Jungian psychology, dance and movement, bioenergetics, dreamwork, shamanism, entheogenics, and Reiki. She was also a participant in the twentieth-century’s civil rights and equal rights movements, a world traveler, a collector of books and art, and a good friend to many. In recent years, Loretta was known for her love of gardening, particularly for the irises and roses she shared with neighbors and family, for her haiku and photography, and for her warmth, generosity, integrity, playfulness, and courage. She asked that her obituary not focus on her life trajectory, academic degrees, and achievements, but that it instead feature this poem she wrote:

Allowing spirit to move me,

So shall I move from lightness into darkness

And from the darkening into the light ...

From air into matter,

And from matter into air.

Shape shifting —

From joy into my sorrow, and

From my tears into my laughter ...

From stillness into movement and back

Transformed into the stillness ...

Into the flame of my beating pulse

Into the oceans and streams

Of my deepest longing

As above, so below,

As within, so without.

My prayer ... that I know my essence as love.

Loretta leaves her daughters, Cathy and Traci; her sons-in-law, Stu and Todd; her granddaughters, Scout (Charles), Anelya Zoe, and Ana Lucia; her great-granddaughter, Aspyn; her siblings Mike, Dianne, and Cece (Joe); many nephews and nieces and their children; and her extended Gotch, Forsythe, and Armer family. Her parents, her brother Dan, her nephew Sean, and her beloved husband and soulmate, Mike, predeceased her.

A memorial service for Loretta will be held at 10 am on July 27 at the Chapel of Light, Rivera Family Funeral Home, on East Rodeo Road in Santa Fe. The memorial will also be live-streamed; details will be available closer to the date of the service at https://riverafamilyfuneralhome.com/. In lieu of flowers or cards, please consider donating to the charity of your choice, planting a flower or tree, or lighting a candle in Loretta’s memory.