NANCY JOAN RICHARDSON

Nancy Joan Richardson was born in Peoria, Illinois, on July 3, 1934, and died peacefully in Ottawa on September 18, 2025. Nancy was a force to be reckoned with. She had a chin-up-carry-on approach to challenges and loss in her life that was something to behold. She was fiercely loyal and loving to her close friends. She avidly followed world events and the Canadian political scene and was not shy about sharing her thoughts. She loved adventure and together with her beloved husband, Henry, and their children lived all over the world, including multi-year stints in Kuala Lumpur, Nairobi, Havana, and London before settling back in Ottawa. Nancy loved colour and art in her life. She was never afraid of a bold red or blue and that love expressed itself in her clothes, but also through Fine Arts courses at the University of Manitoba and later in London, a 20-year stint as a docent at the National Gallery and an eclectic collection that covered all of the walls of her house. Hers was a home filled with a wonderfully supportive group of friends, good food, and interesting conversation. Above all, Nancy loved, and was loved by, her family and will be missed terribly by her three surviving children, Paul (Lynda), Sarah, and Harriet (Jason); and her grandchildren, Maddy, Henry, and Kate.