Born in Wilmington, Delaware during the Roaring 20s. She married the love of her life, Jack Glendon Fuller Jr. Nancy worked her way through college as a librarian and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She was a lifelong learner who instilled these qualities in others around her. An atlas, encyclopedia, and a dictionary were never far from the kitchen table. She was a voracious reader with a passion for history, and an accomplished genealogist who authored a number of books on family history that have inspired and been cited by others.
Starting out with little means, when Jack and Nancy moved their young family to Southern California, Nancy had to choose whether to have a horse or a car. She chose the horse, Bill, and would hoist two kids up, one in front and one in back, and ride to the convenience store, dismount, and tie Bill to a parking meter. Despite being an east coast girl, Nancy rose to the challenge of Western life and ran the family farm when Jack was traveling for work.
In the summer of , Jack was working on the east coast so Nancy loaded all five kids and Beauregard the dog into the family station wagon and drove route 66 from Southern California to Chicago, then on to Maine to spend the summer, so that we could be with Dad on the weekends.
The next year, in February of , Nancy drove us across the country for the third time in 9 months to move the family to Connecticut, arriving in our new state just as John Glenn was splashing down. At home, Nancy sewed, mended, painted walls, built, and designed everything.
She always had ideas for how things could be made better, and marshaled crews to make it happen. She was the events organizer and second mother to employees and their spouses, creating enduring friendships. Together Nancy and Jack took on many adventures.
