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Grex Scifi Item 126: Nancy Tucker Shaw
Entered by tpryan on Mon Sep 18 22:33:56 UTC 2000:

For those of you not on the stilyagi mailing list, we have lost one
of our founders.  The following comes from Misti:
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:01:44 -0400
From: Misti Anslin Tucker
Subject: Nancy Tucker Shaw September 20,1928-September 17, 2000

It is with great sadness (for those of us this remarkable woman left
behind) that I must announce that Nancy Tucker Shaw, widow of Bob Shaw
and well-known fan in her own right, passed through the Western Gate and
into eternity at 8:15 am on Sunday, September 17, 2000.

Nancy had been in very poor health since her debilitating stroke on
September 20, 1998 and in recent weeks had been deteriorating
dramatically.

Her family was called back to the hospital a few hours after they left
on Saturday, and surrounded her in love for the last several hours before
she passed quietly and reasonably comfortably.

Nancy Tucker Shaw Obituary

Nancy Tucker Shaw, widow of renowned SF author Bob Shaw, was born Nancy
Ellen Jung in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on September 20, 1928, the daughter
of Charles Chester Jung and Gwen Drew.

She is survived by her brother Chic Jung and his wife Carolyn, by her
sons and daughters-in-law, Lawrence and Misti, Randolph and Lori, Steven
and Wendy, and Michael and Susan Tucker, and by her grandchildren
Nicholas, Tomas-Jason, Corineous, Christopher, Michael, Caitlyn, and
William.

Nancy attended Laurence College in Appleton, Wisconsin and earned her
Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, where she later founded, organized,
and ran the University's first audio-visual department.

Nancy was an avid fan of Science Fiction and SF Faandom and was a
founding member and long-time president of the Science Fiction Oral
History society, she was an early three-time chair of early ConFusions in
SE Michigan, and was a well-known and beloved presense at conventions in
the US and the British Isles.

Nancy was also an an accomplished artist, a musician and singer, an
award winning Avon sales representative, a pilot, and an accomplished SCCA
competitive (race car) driver. She served for many years as the
secretary of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Ypsilanti, Michigan where she
computerized the office and published the weekly newsletter.

Nancy had been a resident of SE Michigan since 1959.  She had suffered a
debilitating stroke in September of 1998 and had been very ill since
that some time.  Memorial arrangements are being made for later in the
month through St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Ypsilanti, Michigan.  We hope
this will allow as many of her loved ones as would like to, to gather one
more time in her honour.  For more information contact Misti Anslin
Tucker, manslin@earthlink.net or Larry Tucker at (734) 434-0599 or at 2523
Torrey Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI, 48108-1340, US

Sympathy cards, photographs, and memorial notes will be displayed in a
scrapbook at Nancy's memorial where guests will be encouraged to write
notes about their memories of Nancy.  The scrap book will then be
presented to her sons and her grandchildren; we hope to have a large book
for them.
(please?)

Please send this note to everyone who considered Nancy a friend.

Thank you.

Misti (Nancy's daughter-in-law)

**********
I'm Not Here

Don't Stand by my grave and weep
For I'm not there, I do not sleep
I am a thousand winds that blow
I am the diamonds glint on snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain
I am the gentle autumn's rain

When you awaken in mornings, hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circle flight
I am the soft stars that shine at night
Do not stand at my grave and cry
I am not there,
I did not die.

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1 responses total.

#1 of 1 by robh on Tue Sep 19 00:59:35 2000:

I'm saddened to hear this.  I remember Nancy from the
mid-80's, when I was just getting involved with SF fandom.

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