In Memory
Nancy Jo Pinney
Oct. 27, 1942 - May 31, 2024
My dear sister, Nancy Jo age 81, passed away at Memorial Hospital where she was also born. The cause was pneumonia.
Preceded in death by her parents, Joe and Evelyn Pinney; aunt and uncle, Muriel and Devere Goheen. Survived by her sister, Kaylyn Kramer of Los Angeles, CA.
Nancy graduated from Riley High School in 1960. Attended Indiana University in Bloomington, IN receiving a B.S. and Master degree in Library Science from there. She taught briefly in Columbus, IN, but returned to South Bend in the early ’70’s. In 1988 she transitioned from the elementary level to high school. Nancy spent the rest of her career at Washington High until her retirement in 2015.
She was a sponsor in the National Honor Society where she designed the invitations, programs and place cards for the banquet. Assigned seating with everyone’s name at the tables. It was a new format for the event.
An active member of Psi Iota Xi (Gamma Sigma chapter), a philanthropic organization, as was her mother and aunt. I still have the cookbook she helped to create in 1973 for them. It was written on typewriters. No computers back then.
In retirement she was a volunteer usher at the DeBartolo Center of the Performing Arts at Notre Dame. Which she much enjoyed! Was a season ticket holder with the South Bend Symphony and the Lyric Opera in Chicago for many years.
Many thanks to her friends Bonnie, Brenda and Jeanmarie for all your help and friendship.
Donations can be made to the South Bend Symphony or charity of your choice.
08/07/2024 EJS
Kaylyn Pinney (Kramer) (1964)
Nancy Pinney passed away in South Bend, IN. NOT in Los Angeles, CA. (Think AI had something to do with this mistake!)
Melinda Kay Gibbons (Schupmann) (1960)
I am sorry to hear that Nancy Jo has passed away. She was a friend who was intelligent and always good company.