Saturday, April 21, 2018
Dearest Rock, Holly and Family:
Nancy was a wife, mother, Nana, sister, friend, talented artist, a warrior and my hero. What a blessing she was to so many people. I knew and loved her for almost forty years, and the last twenty years we became bookends, so much alike and so much like sisters. I use to sit with her for hours in the infusion room and when it suddenly became my turn to deal with cancer, she was the first one there in the infusion room holding a gift of a coffee mug that I still use for tea. She was always kind and generous and never missed a “teaching” moment. She taught me how to push forward regardless of surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation, etc. As the years rolled by we would end up at events wearing the same clothing, enjoying the same restaurants together, and finding humorous moments, even when things didn’t look too humours to outsiders. She was strong and positive and despite her lengthy illness never gave in to it. She taught us all how to deal with life’s difficult moments, by example. Although her light has been extinguished, the memories of her will continue to brighten my life forever. I will always love you Nance, my friend, my bookend, my hero.
