Former Owner of Hi-Ho Club, Avid Walker Anne Carrier Remembered

Those who never met Anne Carrier may have spotted her walking around town.

Walking around IB, especially in Veterans Park and at the beach, was one of Carrier’s favorite things to do. She would walk around the city in which she lived since 1955 almost everyday.

“She loved to walk around Imperial Beach any chance she got. She walked constantly for three times a day or more,” said her granddaughter Sabrina Turbeville. “That woman went all day long.”

Turbeville said that Carrier owned a car, but quit driving last year.

In fact, Turbeville said, Carrier drove on the freeway “just a couple of times” in her life and hardly ventured outside the roadways of Imperial Beach.

“She was not a freeway driver. She stayed in Imperial Beach and for as long as I would remember somebody would have to drive her to Coronado,” Turbeville said.

Carrier was born on April 14, 1925, in Shreveport, LA. She grew up on a farm and when she was 16 years old married a Navy man and moved to San Diego.

She came to Imperial Beach in 1955 and bought a home on Oneonta Avenue, where she lived until her death Aug. 14 after a short battle with pneumonia. She was 86.

Longtime residents of Imperial Beach may remember Carrier as the owner of The Hi-Ho Club, which she owned for nearly 20 years before selling the bar and retiring. The Hi-Ho Club is now .  

Turbeville said her grandmother sold the bar because she was tired and wanted to live her own life. On occasion, Carrier would stop by The Scoreboard just to check things out.

“She would walk in every now and then to see how things are. It was a big part of her life,” Turbeville said.

After moving to Imperial Beach, Carrier never missed attending the , where she always looked forward to eating her lumpia rolls and teriyaki beef on a stick at the street fair.

The holiday season was always special for Carrier and her family, who liked to invite people without a family into the bar and cook for them.

“She was always the one to know everything, make sure she stayed in contact with everybody, checked on everybody. She was the Monarch. She’s the one that kept the whole family together.” Turbeville said.

Turbeville said one of her fondest memories is always seeing her grandmother cook in the kitchen. Carrier would cook waffles on the weekend, cook lumpia and even stir up some gumbo.

She is survived by a daughter, Grace Corning; son Gordon Stanford; granddaughter Turbeville; and grandson Dustin Corning and five great grandchildren.