Nancy Jane Horsley McMahon of Huntsville, loving wife, mother and grandmother, passed away Monday at age 76 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Ella Sue Fuller Horsley, her husband of thirty-three years, James Raymond McMahon, and her infant granddaughter, Catherine Rose McMahon.
After graduating from Boaz High School, Nancy earned degrees in English Literature and Spanish from Birmingham-Southern College and went on to obtain an M.S. in Education from Samford University. She worked as a teacher and guidance counselor in the Jefferson County, Marshall County and Huntsville school systems. After devoting many years to raising a family, Nancy returned to work, conducting training courses in writing with the Communications Skills Company in Huntsville for 11 years and working as a technical editor for Teledyne Brown Engineering for 17 years.
Nancy was a very active member of the community. Along with several friends, she formed a small company which gave walking tours of the Twickenham District. She was a member of the Blossomwood Garden Club, in which she served a term as president, and was also a member of the Huntsville Chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi and of the Huntsville Literary Association.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Ella Sue Fuller Horsley, her husband of thirty-three years, James Raymond McMahon, and her infant granddaughter, Catherine Rose McMahon.
After graduating from Boaz High School, Nancy earned degrees in English Literature and Spanish from Birmingham-Southern College and went on to obtain an M.S. in Education from Samford University. She worked as a teacher and guidance counselor in the Jefferson County, Marshall County and Huntsville school systems. After devoting many years to raising a family, Nancy returned to work, conducting training courses in writing with the Communications Skills Company in Huntsville for 11 years and working as a technical editor for Teledyne Brown Engineering for 17 years.
Nancy was a very active member of the community. Along with several friends, she formed a small company which gave walking tours of the Twickenham District. She was a member of the Blossomwood Garden Club, in which she served a term as president, and was also a member of the Huntsville Chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi and of the Huntsville Literary Association.
Nancy Jane Horsley McMahon of Huntsville, loving wife, mother and grandmother, passed away Monday at age 76 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Ella Sue Fuller Horsley, her husband of thirty-three years, James Raymond McMahon, and her infant granddaughter, Catherine Rose McMahon.
After graduating from Boaz High School, Nancy earned degrees in English Literature and Spanish from Birmingham-Southern College and went on to obtain an M.S. in Education from Samford University. She worked as a teacher and guidance counselor in the Jefferson County, Marshall County and Huntsville school systems. After devoting many years to raising a family, Nancy returned to work, conducting training courses in writing with the Communications Skills Company in Huntsville for 11 years and working as a technical editor for Teledyne Brown Engineering for 17 years.
Nancy was a very active member of the community. Along with several friends, she formed a small company which gave walking tours of the Twickenham District. She was a member of the Blossomwood Garden Club, in which she served a term as president, and was also a member of the Huntsville Chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi and of the Huntsville Literary Association.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Ella Sue Fuller Horsley, her husband of thirty-three years, James Raymond McMahon, and her infant granddaughter, Catherine Rose McMahon.
After graduating from Boaz High School, Nancy earned degrees in English Literature and Spanish from Birmingham-Southern College and went on to obtain an M.S. in Education from Samford University. She worked as a teacher and guidance counselor in the Jefferson County, Marshall County and Huntsville school systems. After devoting many years to raising a family, Nancy returned to work, conducting training courses in writing with the Communications Skills Company in Huntsville for 11 years and working as a technical editor for Teledyne Brown Engineering for 17 years.
Nancy was a very active member of the community. Along with several friends, she formed a small company which gave walking tours of the Twickenham District. She was a member of the Blossomwood Garden Club, in which she served a term as president, and was also a member of the Huntsville Chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi and of the Huntsville Literary Association.
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