Nancy Jean Ross

I just found out she passed today when I called to schedule another visit to her in hospice as I hadn't known till today.
I visited with her the weekend before Thanksgiving weekend when a friend of hers contacted me to let me know that she was in hospice.
Was hoping that I could have seen her again but glad I saw her when I did as it had been some years, like since just before the pandemic, before I last saw her, and we had a nice visit and I was able to tell her that I loved her so I'm glad I got that chance, and only a couple weeks before she passed.
I met Nancy when she was working in the copy room at Rex Putnam High School when I went there back in the late 90s and early 2000s and she became like a surrogate grandma to me and we'd stayed in touched and she'd encouraged me and supported me through the years, especially in my writing, and I even included her in my acknowledgements in my first book of poetry, Windows & Stars, which I read to her from when I visited her in hospice.
I hope she's at peace now and I am glad to have known her as long as I did.