IN MEMORIAM NANCY BRIGHAM: June 9, 1941-December 29, 2020
[See the full MNS MEMORIALS]
Two services were held to celebrate Nancy's rich life:
--Jan. 30, 2021 at Keene Unitarian Universalist Church, NH (Pix above)
--and Jan. 10 mainly for MNSers (Photos of attendees below)*
Read two obituaries: one online and a second below this
AGENDA FOR JAN. 10, 2021 MEMORIAL FOR NANCY.
Welcome
Opening Song by Annie Patterson
Some Invited Prepared Messages
A Song by PJ Hoffman
Open Sharing by Attendees
Closing Song by Annie and Peter Blood (pic below)
OBIT for MNSers, from Steve Chase:
Nancy died on December 29, 2020 under hospice care in the Memory Unit at
the Langdon Place nursing home in Keene, NH. She had suffered increasing
cognitive decline over the last few years and significant physical decline
in the last couple of months. She was put under hospice care close to
three weeks ago and less than two weeks ago stopped eating, then lost
consciousness, and her breathing became weak and irregular. On the
day she died, she was allowed two visitors, even with the nursing's
COVID restrictions, and these two local Keene friends stayed with her
for hours, talking to her, passing along messages from others, and
singing to her from her beloved Rise Up Singing songbook.
She died in the evening a few minutes after her local UU minister
left her. I wanted you all to know that she was ready to go
and did not want to linger any longer.
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Nancy was a member of the Life Center, active in the Macro-Analysis
Collective when I first met her when a newly recruited midwestern teenager.
She was a frequent attender at MNS National Gatherings, as well as
a leader in the organization, and a member of a number of MNS or
MNS-adjacent collective households in Philadelphia, Western Mass,
Boston, and in Keene, NH. She was active and supportive of United
for a Fair Economy and the Institute of Community Economics.
In later years she was active in her UU church in Keene, the
Transition Movement, and the nonviolent direct action movement to
shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor. She was a natural
archivist and donated many boxes of papers and MNS newsletters
to the Swarthmore Library Peace Collection. She was often anxious
and uptight, but time and time again she pushed beyond her
comfort zone and touched, mentored, and supported many of us.
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