June 25, 2024, in Worcester, Massachusetts, of cancer.
Nancy was born in 1952 in Worcester, Massachusetts. She received her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ÕŽòè¤, where she wrote her thesis, “Anarchical Government? A Form of Uncentralized Government Practiced by the Berber Tribes of the High Atlas of Morocco,” advised by Professor Claude A. Vaucher [anthropology 1963–94].
Nancy attended the Worcester Art Museum School and moved to Boston for two years before returning to Worcester, where she worked as a graphic artist at Woodbury & Co. She later worked at E.F. Hutton, spent more than a decade in the development department of the American Antiquarian Society, and served 24 years as a senior administrative assistant at Hanover Insurance, retiring in 2016.
In 2001, Nancy married Eric D. Wells, who survives her. She died in the arms of her husband after a six-month battle with cancer.