Nancy Janice Ryan Rescigno

Nancy Janice Ryan Rescigno was surrounded by her three children Troy, Sean and Jil Winburn when she died on March 15, 2021 from pancreatic cancer at age 81. With the help of her children and Sean's partner Teresa Howard, she was able to stay home as she wished.  She was born in Loretto, KY, to Irish Catholic parents, the 9th of 10 children, in a 3 bedroom house built by her father with no indoor plumbing and a coal stove for heat. There was a lot of love, humor and saying of the rosary. She was close with her siblings, particularly her 5 sisters. Her rustic upbringing made her independent and always moving forward and through things, which she instilled into her children. Because of her humble beginnings, she was grateful for most everything and rarely complained.   Mom always progressed with the times and rarely spoke of the past; after high school she moved to the big city of Louisville, went to college for a year as well as worked at Colgate-Palmolive and then married Robert Winburn. After she had children, she was a stay at home mom and then decided to finish college in her 30's and went to work for the US Treasury Department as a Customs Inspector of large cargo ships in Dundalk Marine Terminal, which she really enjoyed. She divorced, and when her children were grown she remarried Jerry Rescigno, embarking on trips around the world together including many European and Asian countries and New Zealand, among others, sometimes taking their grandchildren, which brought her great joy.   Her second marriage ended but she continued her lifelong love of hiking and painting, landscapes, portraits and still lifes, she was adept at all equally, in addition to being a Master Gardener. She was a lifelong member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, also studied Buddhist philosophy and volunteered with Our Daily Bread.  She is being cremated and taken back to her roots in Kentucky where a celebration of her life will be held this summer when Covid hopefully clears.