Nina Teresa Cryan

Pinehurst, NC

Nina Teresa Cryan, 43, of Pinehurst, NC, died Thursday evening, June 19, 2008 at her home surrounded by family. She was born December 7, 1964 in Munich, Germany, a daughter of Artemis Adrienne Ledesma and William Ourednik Warren, Jr.

Nina grew up in Monterey, CA and graduated from Carmel Valley High School in Carmel, CA in 1982. She attended Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS where she studied interior design.

Shortly after leaving Kansas she returned to the Monterey Peninsula where she met her future husband, Stephen Cryan. They were married in December of 1993 at the Carmel Mission in Carmel, CA.

Nina worked for eight years at the famous Hog's Breath Inn in Carmel and was an administrative assistant for Wide World of Golf.

In 1995, she and her husband moved to Pinehurst, NC, where she worked for two years for the Greg Norman Collection and became very active in the community. The joy of her life was the couple's son, Griffin, and making a home for them. She was a former member of Mother's of Moore and past member of the PTA board of Academy Heights Elementary School.

After being diagnosed with cancer in 2002, she became actively involved in fund raising for cancer causes and was co-founder of the North Moore Relay for Life. Nina was an avid scrapbooker and touched many lives through her hobby, helping to coordinate the first Cut Out Cancer Crop to raise money for cancer research and the First Health Cancer Care Foundation. She also was a sales consultant for Southern Living at Home from 2004 through 2007.

She is survived by her husband of 15 years, Stephen J. Cryan, and their 11 year old son, Griffin Patrick Cryan; a grandfather, Melvin Guzman Ledesma of Santa Maria, CA; father, William O. Warren, Jr. of Rose Boom, NY; mother, Artemis A. Ledesma of Pacific Grove, CA; two sisters, Olga Maximoff and her husband, Eric of Monterey, CA, and Victoria Ledesma of Pacific Grove, CA; father-in-law, John G. Cryan and his wife, Diana of Monterey, CA; brother-in-law, Michael Cryan of Honolulu, HI; sisters-in-law: Christine Borish and husband, Bryce of Oregon City, OR; Maureen Breslin of Milton, NY; Kathleen Cryan of Walden, NY; Colleen Giametta and husband, Gary of Highland, NY; Eileen Morehead and husband, Brian of Newburgh, NY, and Laureen Baldwin and husband, Tim of Walden, NY; twelve nieces and nephews: Angela and Robert Olson; Charles and Christopher Cryan; Megan and Matthew Breslin; Jessica and Allison Baldwin; Kristen and Kyle Morehead; Ceara Giametta, and Iggy Maximoff.

She was preceded in death by grandmother, Hortensia Vela Ledesma; mother-in-law, Margaret P. Collins; step mother-in-law, Shirley L. Cryan; brothers-in-law, Kevin Cryan and Alex Breslin.

A Funeral Mass will be held at St. Anthony's of Padua Catholic Church in Southern Pines, Wednesday, June 25, at 10 a.m.

A Memorial Mass will be held Saturday, June 28, at 1 p.m. at St. Augustine Catholic Church, Highland NY. Interment will follow in Marlboro, NY at St. Mary's Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to The Griffin Cryan College Fund that has been established in honor of Nina Cryan at PO Box 4434, Pinehurst, NC 28374 or First Health Cancer Care Foundation and First Health Hospice Foundation, 150 Applecross Rd., Pinehurst, NC 28374.

Local arrangements have been entrusted to Lawrence M. Cavazza & Carl DiDonato of The DiDonato Funeral Home, 1290 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY.