Steve Wasserman “Heel and toe, and away I go”: Ann Dragoon Wasserman, Aug. 8, 1929 – May 27, 2026 My mother, Ann Dragoon Wasserman, a pillar of Berkeley’s cultural and political life since moving to the city in 1963, died last week, 10 weeks shy of her 97th birthday, of natural causes peacefully in her sleep in her North Berkeley home on what would have been her late husband Al’s 96th birthday. She was surrounded by her three children, myself and my two sisters, Rena and Sherry.