Nancy was the fourth and final child of Harry and Evelyn Ashburn, and was a sister to this contributor. She was born at 1:15AM at the "Old Highland Hospital" in Beacon, New York. Nancy was born exactly seven months before her fathers death and though they did meet before his death Nancy was an infant and had no memory of it. According to Evelyn, Nancy's mother, Nancy was born at about seven and one half months of gestation and her premature birth was brought about by the shock that Evelyn underwent when she learned that her husband Harry (Nancy's father) had terminal lung cancer.
Nancy's first name was chosen by her brother William and her middle name was chosen in honor of her mother, Evelyn LOUISE (Kimble) Ashburn. She attended school in the City of Beacon, New York, School District, graduating from Beacon High School in commencement exercises held at Hammonds Field on Verplank Avenue in Beacon, New York at 7:00PM on Tuesday, June 27, 1967.
A talented musician, Nancy studied the Viola from the third through the twelfth grades and studied as well as taught the piano from age nineteen to about age thirty. She attended one year of nursing school at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, New York and studied with the Poughkeepsie Civic Ballet and the Ballet Theater of Poughkeepsie, performing with the Poughkeepsie Civic Ballet. She attended classes at the Board of Co-operative Educational Services where she studied auto mechanics and in 1983 she attended a bartenders school.
Nancy never married, was left handed with brown hair and brown eyes. She has been employed as a teachers aide, auto parts store manager, cocktail lounge bartender, telephone repair person and was last employed as a Construction Equipment Operator with the New York State Thruway Authority based at their Middletown, New York facility.
In her capacity as an employee of the New York State Thruway Nancy was a member of the rescue/recovery team sent to the site of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001 and participated in recovery operations at "Ground Zero" in Manhattan, the actual site of the attack.
Though her date of death is officially listed as Tuesday, March 13, 2007 it is believed that she died sometime on Saturday, March 10, 2007. She was a very private person who lived alone and, sadly, she was alone when she died. Her landlord had seen her on Friday, March 9, 2007, and her newspaper which had been delivered to her home on Saturday, March 10, 2007 had been brought inside her home. Additional newspapers delivered after that date were still on the porch of her home when her body was discovered. On Tuesday, March 13, 2007, her landlord, concerned that he hadn't seen her since the previous Friday, contacted Nancy's sister Barbara, who in-turn contacted their brother Bill (who lived much closer to Nancy) and he in turn contacted the landlord and requested him to enter Nancy's home to check on her well being. The landlord, upon entering Nancy's home, discovered her remains lying on the sofa in her living room. Bill and this contributor (Nancy's brothers) left for Nancy's home at this point and upon arrival were let into Nancy's home by the landlord where we confirmed what the landlord had observed and the police were notified. Subsequent investigation by the authorities determined that, unknown to the rest of the family, she was under a doctors care for heart and other conditions and according to her doctor she did not always follow his medical advice. He determined that her death was the result of those medical conditions and did not order an autopsy. According to the funeral director Nancy had been deceased about sixty hours when discovered which would put her time of death at sometime late in the day on Saturday, March 10th, 2007. Officially, in New York State, a person who is unattended at death is listed as having died on the date that their remains are discovered and because of that Nancy's official date of death, of record, is shown as Tuesday, March 13, 2007. Nancy died at 57 years, 11 months, and 16 days of age using the "official" date of her death to calculate her age or about two and a half days earlier using the "probable" date of death.
Several times over the years Nancy expressed to this contributor, and to other family members, her desire to be buried near our parents in a family cemetery in West Virginia if she died unmarried and without additional family. Her wishes were fulfilled and on August 17, 2007 Nancy's cremains were buried in the same burial plot as her mother, Evelyn Louise (Kimble) Ashburn.
In November of 1963, while still a young school girl, Nancy wrote a letter to Jackie Kennedy, the widow of President Kennedy, about the presidents assassination. On November 17, 2013 that letter was included in a national television program commemorating the 50th anniversary of that assassination.
Nancy's first name was chosen by her brother William and her middle name was chosen in honor of her mother, Evelyn LOUISE (Kimble) Ashburn. She attended school in the City of Beacon, New York, School District, graduating from Beacon High School in commencement exercises held at Hammonds Field on Verplank Avenue in Beacon, New York at 7:00PM on Tuesday, June 27, 1967.
A talented musician, Nancy studied the Viola from the third through the twelfth grades and studied as well as taught the piano from age nineteen to about age thirty. She attended one year of nursing school at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, New York and studied with the Poughkeepsie Civic Ballet and the Ballet Theater of Poughkeepsie, performing with the Poughkeepsie Civic Ballet. She attended classes at the Board of Co-operative Educational Services where she studied auto mechanics and in 1983 she attended a bartenders school.
Nancy never married, was left handed with brown hair and brown eyes. She has been employed as a teachers aide, auto parts store manager, cocktail lounge bartender, telephone repair person and was last employed as a Construction Equipment Operator with the New York State Thruway Authority based at their Middletown, New York facility.
In her capacity as an employee of the New York State Thruway Nancy was a member of the rescue/recovery team sent to the site of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001 and participated in recovery operations at "Ground Zero" in Manhattan, the actual site of the attack.
Though her date of death is officially listed as Tuesday, March 13, 2007 it is believed that she died sometime on Saturday, March 10, 2007. She was a very private person who lived alone and, sadly, she was alone when she died. Her landlord had seen her on Friday, March 9, 2007, and her newspaper which had been delivered to her home on Saturday, March 10, 2007 had been brought inside her home. Additional newspapers delivered after that date were still on the porch of her home when her body was discovered. On Tuesday, March 13, 2007, her landlord, concerned that he hadn't seen her since the previous Friday, contacted Nancy's sister Barbara, who in-turn contacted their brother Bill (who lived much closer to Nancy) and he in turn contacted the landlord and requested him to enter Nancy's home to check on her well being. The landlord, upon entering Nancy's home, discovered her remains lying on the sofa in her living room. Bill and this contributor (Nancy's brothers) left for Nancy's home at this point and upon arrival were let into Nancy's home by the landlord where we confirmed what the landlord had observed and the police were notified. Subsequent investigation by the authorities determined that, unknown to the rest of the family, she was under a doctors care for heart and other conditions and according to her doctor she did not always follow his medical advice. He determined that her death was the result of those medical conditions and did not order an autopsy. According to the funeral director Nancy had been deceased about sixty hours when discovered which would put her time of death at sometime late in the day on Saturday, March 10th, 2007. Officially, in New York State, a person who is unattended at death is listed as having died on the date that their remains are discovered and because of that Nancy's official date of death, of record, is shown as Tuesday, March 13, 2007. Nancy died at 57 years, 11 months, and 16 days of age using the "official" date of her death to calculate her age or about two and a half days earlier using the "probable" date of death.
Several times over the years Nancy expressed to this contributor, and to other family members, her desire to be buried near our parents in a family cemetery in West Virginia if she died unmarried and without additional family. Her wishes were fulfilled and on August 17, 2007 Nancy's cremains were buried in the same burial plot as her mother, Evelyn Louise (Kimble) Ashburn.
In November of 1963, while still a young school girl, Nancy wrote a letter to Jackie Kennedy, the widow of President Kennedy, about the presidents assassination. On November 17, 2013 that letter was included in a national television program commemorating the 50th anniversary of that assassination.
Nancy was the fourth and final child of Harry and Evelyn Ashburn, and was a sister to this contributor. She was born at 1:15AM at the "Old Highland Hospital" in Beacon, New York. Nancy was born exactly seven months before her fathers death and though they did meet before his death Nancy was an infant and had no memory of it. According to Evelyn, Nancy's mother, Nancy was born at about seven and one half months of gestation and her premature birth was brought about by the shock that Evelyn underwent when she learned that her husband Harry (Nancy's father) had terminal lung cancer.
Nancy's first name was chosen by her brother William and her middle name was chosen in honor of her mother, Evelyn LOUISE (Kimble) Ashburn. She attended school in the City of Beacon, New York, School District, graduating from Beacon High School in commencement exercises held at Hammonds Field on Verplank Avenue in Beacon, New York at 7:00PM on Tuesday, June 27, 1967.
A talented musician, Nancy studied the Viola from the third through the twelfth grades and studied as well as taught the piano from age nineteen to about age thirty. She attended one year of nursing school at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, New York and studied with the Poughkeepsie Civic Ballet and the Ballet Theater of Poughkeepsie, performing with the Poughkeepsie Civic Ballet. She attended classes at the Board of Co-operative Educational Services where she studied auto mechanics and in 1983 she attended a bartenders school.
Nancy never married, was left handed with brown hair and brown eyes. She has been employed as a teachers aide, auto parts store manager, cocktail lounge bartender, telephone repair person and was last employed as a Construction Equipment Operator with the New York State Thruway Authority based at their Middletown, New York facility.
In her capacity as an employee of the New York State Thruway Nancy was a member of the rescue/recovery team sent to the site of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001 and participated in recovery operations at "Ground Zero" in Manhattan, the actual site of the attack.
Though her date of death is officially listed as Tuesday, March 13, 2007 it is believed that she died sometime on Saturday, March 10, 2007. She was a very private person who lived alone and, sadly, she was alone when she died. Her landlord had seen her on Friday, March 9, 2007, and her newspaper which had been delivered to her home on Saturday, March 10, 2007 had been brought inside her home. Additional newspapers delivered after that date were still on the porch of her home when her body was discovered. On Tuesday, March 13, 2007, her landlord, concerned that he hadn't seen her since the previous Friday, contacted Nancy's sister Barbara, who in-turn contacted their brother Bill (who lived much closer to Nancy) and he in turn contacted the landlord and requested him to enter Nancy's home to check on her well being. The landlord, upon entering Nancy's home, discovered her remains lying on the sofa in her living room. Bill and this contributor (Nancy's brothers) left for Nancy's home at this point and upon arrival were let into Nancy's home by the landlord where we confirmed what the landlord had observed and the police were notified. Subsequent investigation by the authorities determined that, unknown to the rest of the family, she was under a doctors care for heart and other conditions and according to her doctor she did not always follow his medical advice. He determined that her death was the result of those medical conditions and did not order an autopsy. According to the funeral director Nancy had been deceased about sixty hours when discovered which would put her time of death at sometime late in the day on Saturday, March 10th, 2007. Officially, in New York State, a person who is unattended at death is listed as having died on the date that their remains are discovered and because of that Nancy's official date of death, of record, is shown as Tuesday, March 13, 2007. Nancy died at 57 years, 11 months, and 16 days of age using the "official" date of her death to calculate her age or about two and a half days earlier using the "probable" date of death.
Several times over the years Nancy expressed to this contributor, and to other family members, her desire to be buried near our parents in a family cemetery in West Virginia if she died unmarried and without additional family. Her wishes were fulfilled and on August 17, 2007 Nancy's cremains were buried in the same burial plot as her mother, Evelyn Louise (Kimble) Ashburn.
In November of 1963, while still a young school girl, Nancy wrote a letter to Jackie Kennedy, the widow of President Kennedy, about the presidents assassination. On November 17, 2013 that letter was included in a national television program commemorating the 50th anniversary of that assassination.
Nancy's first name was chosen by her brother William and her middle name was chosen in honor of her mother, Evelyn LOUISE (Kimble) Ashburn. She attended school in the City of Beacon, New York, School District, graduating from Beacon High School in commencement exercises held at Hammonds Field on Verplank Avenue in Beacon, New York at 7:00PM on Tuesday, June 27, 1967.
A talented musician, Nancy studied the Viola from the third through the twelfth grades and studied as well as taught the piano from age nineteen to about age thirty. She attended one year of nursing school at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, New York and studied with the Poughkeepsie Civic Ballet and the Ballet Theater of Poughkeepsie, performing with the Poughkeepsie Civic Ballet. She attended classes at the Board of Co-operative Educational Services where she studied auto mechanics and in 1983 she attended a bartenders school.
Nancy never married, was left handed with brown hair and brown eyes. She has been employed as a teachers aide, auto parts store manager, cocktail lounge bartender, telephone repair person and was last employed as a Construction Equipment Operator with the New York State Thruway Authority based at their Middletown, New York facility.
In her capacity as an employee of the New York State Thruway Nancy was a member of the rescue/recovery team sent to the site of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001 and participated in recovery operations at "Ground Zero" in Manhattan, the actual site of the attack.
Though her date of death is officially listed as Tuesday, March 13, 2007 it is believed that she died sometime on Saturday, March 10, 2007. She was a very private person who lived alone and, sadly, she was alone when she died. Her landlord had seen her on Friday, March 9, 2007, and her newspaper which had been delivered to her home on Saturday, March 10, 2007 had been brought inside her home. Additional newspapers delivered after that date were still on the porch of her home when her body was discovered. On Tuesday, March 13, 2007, her landlord, concerned that he hadn't seen her since the previous Friday, contacted Nancy's sister Barbara, who in-turn contacted their brother Bill (who lived much closer to Nancy) and he in turn contacted the landlord and requested him to enter Nancy's home to check on her well being. The landlord, upon entering Nancy's home, discovered her remains lying on the sofa in her living room. Bill and this contributor (Nancy's brothers) left for Nancy's home at this point and upon arrival were let into Nancy's home by the landlord where we confirmed what the landlord had observed and the police were notified. Subsequent investigation by the authorities determined that, unknown to the rest of the family, she was under a doctors care for heart and other conditions and according to her doctor she did not always follow his medical advice. He determined that her death was the result of those medical conditions and did not order an autopsy. According to the funeral director Nancy had been deceased about sixty hours when discovered which would put her time of death at sometime late in the day on Saturday, March 10th, 2007. Officially, in New York State, a person who is unattended at death is listed as having died on the date that their remains are discovered and because of that Nancy's official date of death, of record, is shown as Tuesday, March 13, 2007. Nancy died at 57 years, 11 months, and 16 days of age using the "official" date of her death to calculate her age or about two and a half days earlier using the "probable" date of death.
Several times over the years Nancy expressed to this contributor, and to other family members, her desire to be buried near our parents in a family cemetery in West Virginia if she died unmarried and without additional family. Her wishes were fulfilled and on August 17, 2007 Nancy's cremains were buried in the same burial plot as her mother, Evelyn Louise (Kimble) Ashburn.
In November of 1963, while still a young school girl, Nancy wrote a letter to Jackie Kennedy, the widow of President Kennedy, about the presidents assassination. On November 17, 2013 that letter was included in a national television program commemorating the 50th anniversary of that assassination.
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