Nancy Ann Fawcett, 86, of Biggs, CA, passed away September 13, 2018. Arrangements are under the direction of Chapel of the Twin Cities & Crematory, (530) 673-4360.
Published in Appeal Democrat on Sept. 14, 2018
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Nancy Ann Fawcett, 86, passed away the morning of Sept. 13, 2018 after a short illness at Rideout Memorial Hospital in Marysville. As in life, she was tenacious to the end. The daughter of Erma Marie Murphy (1913-1973) and William Curtis McEnerny, (1903-1983), Nancy was born at French Camp in October 1931 and grew up on a small dairy farm west of Galt on New Hope Road with her older sister E. Jean McEnerney (1930-2018) and younger brother James Curtis “Buzz” McEnerney. She attended Galt Elementary School and Galt High School, graduating in 1949. Nancy was a resolute woman, like her California pioneer ancestors.
After high school, she met and married Jack Richard Fawcett (1925-1992) and he began a career working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service. She raised four boys; the first was Jack R. Fawcett Jr., born at Tule Lake NWR where they lived in a portion of the CCC barracks that formerly housed German POWs. The heating was by wood stove, and their water was kept in a barrel by the front stoop. The new family then moved on to Refuges at Willows, Colusa and Merced. This is where Robert C. Fawcett (Willows) and Monte R. Fawcett (Merced) were born. Jack and Nancy’s next assignment was at the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, where Thomas Duke Fawcett was born in nearby Elko, Nevada. Having to live 60 miles from a grocery store was no simple task for a mom of four boys, so she kept a milk cow and chickens, making use of a log barn that was previously used at Fort Ruby. She grew to love the Ruby Mountains, where she returned to visit many times over the years.
The early ‘60s saw the Fawcett family back near Galt where she and Jack returned to work the old Fawcett Ranch where they grew wheat, hay and one crop of Banana Squash. They tried for a while to grow a variety of berries on the ranch and called it the “J & N Berry Farm”. Nancy then trained and became a school bus driver for the Galt elementary school district. She then took a job with Franchise Tax Board where she worked until her retirement in 1982. After living in Fair Oaks and Shingle Springs, she and Jack moved to a small farm near Biggs where she divided her time with the Pink Ladies at Orchard Hospital in Gridley, teaching a local line dancing class, and growing a garden, with sheep and chickens about. She loved to travel the West in a camp trailer, and also visited Hawaii, the Midwest and Washington, D .C.
Nancy is survived by her brother, James Curtis McEnerney of Sacramento; sons Jack R. Fawcett of Whitethorn, Robert and Janet Fawcett of Elk Grove, Monte and Sandy Fawcett of Sparks, Nevada, Thomas and Alicia Fawcett of Myrtle Creek, Oregon; grandchildren Robert Ellis, William Jack, Jessica Ann, Danny Ray, Casey, Cody and Felicia Fawcett; great grandchildren Arthur Fawcett, Brooklyn M. Miller, Wyatt and Emmett Fawcett.
A celebration of life will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 11 a.m., at the Gridley Moose Lodge, 1533 CA-99 in Gridley.
Contributor: Grave Hound (46865877) •
Published in Appeal Democrat on Sept. 14, 2018
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Nancy Ann Fawcett, 86, passed away the morning of Sept. 13, 2018 after a short illness at Rideout Memorial Hospital in Marysville. As in life, she was tenacious to the end. The daughter of Erma Marie Murphy (1913-1973) and William Curtis McEnerny, (1903-1983), Nancy was born at French Camp in October 1931 and grew up on a small dairy farm west of Galt on New Hope Road with her older sister E. Jean McEnerney (1930-2018) and younger brother James Curtis “Buzz” McEnerney. She attended Galt Elementary School and Galt High School, graduating in 1949. Nancy was a resolute woman, like her California pioneer ancestors.
After high school, she met and married Jack Richard Fawcett (1925-1992) and he began a career working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service. She raised four boys; the first was Jack R. Fawcett Jr., born at Tule Lake NWR where they lived in a portion of the CCC barracks that formerly housed German POWs. The heating was by wood stove, and their water was kept in a barrel by the front stoop. The new family then moved on to Refuges at Willows, Colusa and Merced. This is where Robert C. Fawcett (Willows) and Monte R. Fawcett (Merced) were born. Jack and Nancy’s next assignment was at the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, where Thomas Duke Fawcett was born in nearby Elko, Nevada. Having to live 60 miles from a grocery store was no simple task for a mom of four boys, so she kept a milk cow and chickens, making use of a log barn that was previously used at Fort Ruby. She grew to love the Ruby Mountains, where she returned to visit many times over the years.
The early ‘60s saw the Fawcett family back near Galt where she and Jack returned to work the old Fawcett Ranch where they grew wheat, hay and one crop of Banana Squash. They tried for a while to grow a variety of berries on the ranch and called it the “J & N Berry Farm”. Nancy then trained and became a school bus driver for the Galt elementary school district. She then took a job with Franchise Tax Board where she worked until her retirement in 1982. After living in Fair Oaks and Shingle Springs, she and Jack moved to a small farm near Biggs where she divided her time with the Pink Ladies at Orchard Hospital in Gridley, teaching a local line dancing class, and growing a garden, with sheep and chickens about. She loved to travel the West in a camp trailer, and also visited Hawaii, the Midwest and Washington, D .C.
Nancy is survived by her brother, James Curtis McEnerney of Sacramento; sons Jack R. Fawcett of Whitethorn, Robert and Janet Fawcett of Elk Grove, Monte and Sandy Fawcett of Sparks, Nevada, Thomas and Alicia Fawcett of Myrtle Creek, Oregon; grandchildren Robert Ellis, William Jack, Jessica Ann, Danny Ray, Casey, Cody and Felicia Fawcett; great grandchildren Arthur Fawcett, Brooklyn M. Miller, Wyatt and Emmett Fawcett.
A celebration of life will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 11 a.m., at the Gridley Moose Lodge, 1533 CA-99 in Gridley.
Contributor: Grave Hound (46865877) •
Nancy Ann Fawcett, 86, of Biggs, CA, passed away September 13, 2018. Arrangements are under the direction of Chapel of the Twin Cities & Crematory, (530) 673-4360.
Published in Appeal Democrat on Sept. 14, 2018
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Nancy Ann Fawcett, 86, passed away the morning of Sept. 13, 2018 after a short illness at Rideout Memorial Hospital in Marysville. As in life, she was tenacious to the end. The daughter of Erma Marie Murphy (1913-1973) and William Curtis McEnerny, (1903-1983), Nancy was born at French Camp in October 1931 and grew up on a small dairy farm west of Galt on New Hope Road with her older sister E. Jean McEnerney (1930-2018) and younger brother James Curtis “Buzz” McEnerney. She attended Galt Elementary School and Galt High School, graduating in 1949. Nancy was a resolute woman, like her California pioneer ancestors.
After high school, she met and married Jack Richard Fawcett (1925-1992) and he began a career working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service. She raised four boys; the first was Jack R. Fawcett Jr., born at Tule Lake NWR where they lived in a portion of the CCC barracks that formerly housed German POWs. The heating was by wood stove, and their water was kept in a barrel by the front stoop. The new family then moved on to Refuges at Willows, Colusa and Merced. This is where Robert C. Fawcett (Willows) and Monte R. Fawcett (Merced) were born. Jack and Nancy’s next assignment was at the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, where Thomas Duke Fawcett was born in nearby Elko, Nevada. Having to live 60 miles from a grocery store was no simple task for a mom of four boys, so she kept a milk cow and chickens, making use of a log barn that was previously used at Fort Ruby. She grew to love the Ruby Mountains, where she returned to visit many times over the years.
The early ‘60s saw the Fawcett family back near Galt where she and Jack returned to work the old Fawcett Ranch where they grew wheat, hay and one crop of Banana Squash. They tried for a while to grow a variety of berries on the ranch and called it the “J & N Berry Farm”. Nancy then trained and became a school bus driver for the Galt elementary school district. She then took a job with Franchise Tax Board where she worked until her retirement in 1982. After living in Fair Oaks and Shingle Springs, she and Jack moved to a small farm near Biggs where she divided her time with the Pink Ladies at Orchard Hospital in Gridley, teaching a local line dancing class, and growing a garden, with sheep and chickens about. She loved to travel the West in a camp trailer, and also visited Hawaii, the Midwest and Washington, D .C.
Nancy is survived by her brother, James Curtis McEnerney of Sacramento; sons Jack R. Fawcett of Whitethorn, Robert and Janet Fawcett of Elk Grove, Monte and Sandy Fawcett of Sparks, Nevada, Thomas and Alicia Fawcett of Myrtle Creek, Oregon; grandchildren Robert Ellis, William Jack, Jessica Ann, Danny Ray, Casey, Cody and Felicia Fawcett; great grandchildren Arthur Fawcett, Brooklyn M. Miller, Wyatt and Emmett Fawcett.
A celebration of life will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 11 a.m., at the Gridley Moose Lodge, 1533 CA-99 in Gridley.
Contributor: Grave Hound (46865877) •
Published in Appeal Democrat on Sept. 14, 2018
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Nancy Ann Fawcett, 86, passed away the morning of Sept. 13, 2018 after a short illness at Rideout Memorial Hospital in Marysville. As in life, she was tenacious to the end. The daughter of Erma Marie Murphy (1913-1973) and William Curtis McEnerny, (1903-1983), Nancy was born at French Camp in October 1931 and grew up on a small dairy farm west of Galt on New Hope Road with her older sister E. Jean McEnerney (1930-2018) and younger brother James Curtis “Buzz” McEnerney. She attended Galt Elementary School and Galt High School, graduating in 1949. Nancy was a resolute woman, like her California pioneer ancestors.
After high school, she met and married Jack Richard Fawcett (1925-1992) and he began a career working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service. She raised four boys; the first was Jack R. Fawcett Jr., born at Tule Lake NWR where they lived in a portion of the CCC barracks that formerly housed German POWs. The heating was by wood stove, and their water was kept in a barrel by the front stoop. The new family then moved on to Refuges at Willows, Colusa and Merced. This is where Robert C. Fawcett (Willows) and Monte R. Fawcett (Merced) were born. Jack and Nancy’s next assignment was at the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, where Thomas Duke Fawcett was born in nearby Elko, Nevada. Having to live 60 miles from a grocery store was no simple task for a mom of four boys, so she kept a milk cow and chickens, making use of a log barn that was previously used at Fort Ruby. She grew to love the Ruby Mountains, where she returned to visit many times over the years.
The early ‘60s saw the Fawcett family back near Galt where she and Jack returned to work the old Fawcett Ranch where they grew wheat, hay and one crop of Banana Squash. They tried for a while to grow a variety of berries on the ranch and called it the “J & N Berry Farm”. Nancy then trained and became a school bus driver for the Galt elementary school district. She then took a job with Franchise Tax Board where she worked until her retirement in 1982. After living in Fair Oaks and Shingle Springs, she and Jack moved to a small farm near Biggs where she divided her time with the Pink Ladies at Orchard Hospital in Gridley, teaching a local line dancing class, and growing a garden, with sheep and chickens about. She loved to travel the West in a camp trailer, and also visited Hawaii, the Midwest and Washington, D .C.
Nancy is survived by her brother, James Curtis McEnerney of Sacramento; sons Jack R. Fawcett of Whitethorn, Robert and Janet Fawcett of Elk Grove, Monte and Sandy Fawcett of Sparks, Nevada, Thomas and Alicia Fawcett of Myrtle Creek, Oregon; grandchildren Robert Ellis, William Jack, Jessica Ann, Danny Ray, Casey, Cody and Felicia Fawcett; great grandchildren Arthur Fawcett, Brooklyn M. Miller, Wyatt and Emmett Fawcett.
A celebration of life will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 11 a.m., at the Gridley Moose Lodge, 1533 CA-99 in Gridley.
Contributor: Grave Hound (46865877) •
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