Nancy Joan Ridgewell Wilkie Kerr

My dear Tenn. friend, Nancy Kerr, such a wonderful, loving, caring person who always was there when someone needed her help. She would drop anything she was doing at that time, Grab her car keys, and off shed go ,,,,, wherever she was needed,
A. truly beautiful person, who is still missed, when I think about my friend in Knoxville, Tenn.
Fondly,
Carole Benoist And Family

Written: June 26, 2006

Nancy Kerr was the most selfless person I ever met. She always was thinking about what she could do for others. When I started working at Ft.Sanders Covenant Homecare in 1983, Nancy was a hospice nurse.

She didn't just go and visit a patient if they were extremely ill and not expected to make it through the night, she spent the night with them. She had a heart of pure gold.

Also, Nancy liked to give to her co-workers. In 1987, when I was getting...

NURSES'S WORLD WAR II WORK LAID FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE HOSPICE CARE
(By Sam Brown)
It could have been a Hollywood movie.
She was a young, stunningly beautiful English nurse who cared for wounded British and American troops in World War II. Several dying soldiers called her an angle. Some said she looked like Katharine Hepburn. She was 18 and a student nurse when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France. She remembers D-Day well, comforting many wounded and dying...

I knew of John Kerr when I attended Young High School. 25 years later, his mother, Nancy Kerr came into our lives.

My sister and brother-in-law were expecting their her first child. My husband and I were expecting our second child. We were so excited about being pregnant at the same time. Mom was so happy...

Mom had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. We were devastated. Nancy taught us how to take care of mom and counseled us as a family and individually. She...

Dear Jim & Family;

We just learned of Nancy's passing and we are deeply saddened. May you find comfort in reading just how she touched so many lives.

My family became acquainted with Nancy & Jim in the May of 1981. Our mother had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Nancy & Beth became a member of our family almost immediately. They were welcomed by all and we looked forward to seeing her wonderful smile and big bear hugs.

My sister and I were both...

To the Kerr's: I appreciated your article in the paper about your Mom. She truly was a wonderful hospice nurse to the families she worked with through the years. Nancy was asked to help us when our mother was sent home with cancer in 1979-probably near the beginning of the hospice ministry here in Knoxville. She helped us through 2 long months of mother's illness. Never once was she impatient with all of our questions-just kind and very helpful. We could never have been able to bring...