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Nancy L. Head

Washington, District of Columbia

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HEAD NANCY LEE HEAD On January 15, 2010, at her home in Arlington, VA. An activist, advocate, educator and lay minister who dedicated her life to social justice and raising awareness of mental health issues. Wife of the late Charles J. Turck. Nancy Lee was a founding member and for several years...

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Heard a Billy Joel song that seemed to always be on the radio when we worked together and I thought of her. Karen Browner <3

October 23,2010
As a nurse,i have worked with Nancy Lee in Arlington VA five years ago.Today, i just decided to look on the internet after i did not hear from her for a long time.Sorry to know she died.May her soul rest in perfect peace.Her spirit will always live with me.She was unique in her own way.

When I called Nancy Lee from Ukraine and discovered that the phone was no longer in service, I wondered if this meant her death or maybe just a hospitalization.

Nany Lee and I have been friends for decades. We met as board members at PHEWA. From the first we were sympatico. When my work brought me to DC, she was part of an artist gathering that I hosted regularly in my home. She shared her writing and reflections and laughter. Ironically, I will be returing to DC after my...

You will be deeply missed by all of us!
Love,
The Staff and Board of Hope and a Home

When we were both much, much younger, Nancy (just Nancy, as I knew her then) and I were good friends at a time when it seemed I had almost none. I seldom laughed in those days, yet we often laughed together.

Despite her own problems, she was an ever available, responsive and supportive listener as I spun out my litanies of plight. By gentle questions and suggestions, she helped refocus my magic magnifying mind beyond my immediate crisis toward imminent opportunity.

I have known Nancy Lee for the past 14 years and we have been very good friends. She was first introduced to me by Rev Rob Craig of the New York Presbyterian Church, who had known my father, also a Presbyterian minister. I had moved to Washington and was also involved in the field of mental health. My first association with Nancy was in volunteering with her annual NAMI Christmas Party for patients at St Elizabeths and consumers in the community. In later years we would do fun things like...

Nancy Lee came to our Presbyterian Church in Gulf Breeze, Fla. in the early 1970's, and became a member of our family. She had dinner with us almost every Wed night,and then she and I would go to choir practice. When she left, our church had to Revise Our Budget, because Nancy Lee gave most of her salary back to our church.That says it all to me, she always gave more.Heaven is full of joy and laughter because of her arrival. I know my moma ,daddy and sister were there to greet her.Charles...

nancy lee was a great friend of mine. she was one of my father's (hugh b carter) very best friends and they worked together for many years. my father died 3 years ago and I know that the two of them are together again laughing and talking about the people of the world they so dearly cared about. I will miss her tremendously! myra carter therrien

Nancy Lee was a true saint. None better. None more faithful.