NANCY MARIE DEVORE

Nancy and I met at age 14 or so, when we were in Highland Park Junior High in 1948. I was a quiet, rather shy girl when Nancy befriended me. All at once I was caught up in her enthusiastic interest in almost any topic there was to discuss. At one costume party with our friends we all dressed up as literary characters. Nancy and Pat came as Stella and her sister from A Streetcar Named Desire. Pat wore a slip and carried an iron, and Nancy, dressed in one of her big sisters´ evening gowns was -...

Our deepest condolences for your family. May your loving memories hold close in your heart and God's love give you peace and comfort. (Psalm 83:18)

Dear Ones who loved and treasured "Nancy Skiles of Dallas, Texas." This is how I remembered her for years. I knew her briefly in 1954 when we spent a few weeks in the same work camp in Swannonoa, North Carolina. I was 18 and preparing for my first year in college. She was already at UT, Austin. For those days, over sixty years ago, she was my tutor in how to open up to the world .... and especially . . . how to accept all those around me (we were living in an integrated group) with a loving...

Reading Claire's beautiful reminiscence reminded me that I too have things to say about Nancy's calligraphy. Just the day before yesterday I showed a large class of students, for the thousandth time, her simple, colorful, and elegant map of Africa showing the location of the !Kung San (Bushmen) with whom at various times many of us lived. I will soon show that same class Nancy's gracefully drawn chart of the primates of the world. But what I remember most about this was her...

Nancy, in addition to all the generous things she did in the world in her own right, was the lifelong partner of a famous Harvard anthropologist with a strong personality, who made their home the intellectual center of a vibrant community that turned out to be making a scientific revolution in the 1970s and beyond. Without Nancy's generosity in opening what was her home too, that movement, and those creative people, would have made a much slower and probably smaller impact. An adventurer of...

I knew Nancy at Highland Park High School, and remember her as bright, friendly, and open to the new and the unusual.
Paula McFarland

Nancy was in the group of friends I was privileged to join when I entered Highland Park in my junior year. And what a group it was! These girls were fascinating, intelligent, sensitive to others, always wanting to learn more of everything. They awakened my brain, my senses, and made me a better person. Nancy was bursting with energy, willing to try anything to help more, to understand. Who could have been surprised when Nancy and Irven headed to the wilderness with babies and kept them...

Nancy was a vivid, deeply engaged person, who never sat back and watched, but entered into the world around her. She actively tried to help make this a better world, and is sadly missed. She was a lifelong friend to me. Ann Ralston