Nancy Bray Filteau

NANCY BRAY (DWYER) FILTEAU

Nancy left us on April 12, 2025. She was born in Manchester New Hampshire, the daughter of Samuel L Bray and Cecile (Nolet) Bray on September 7, 1935. She lived most of her life in Manchester, New Hampshire, and spent her retirement years in Naples, Florida. She moved to Saco, Maine in 2007 to be closer to her family, from there she moved to South Portland, Maine to live near her son and daughter in-law, her last residence was at The Inn At Village Square, Gorham, Maine.

Nancy was a graduate of Saint Joseph's High School in Manchester, New Hampshire, and also a graduate of Lasell Junior College in Auburndale, Massachusetts, and Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Before she began her career in teaching and while attending college she became a Breck model and was on the back covers of many different high profile magazines.

In 1960 Nancy met her husband John C. Dwyer, Sr., and married within five months. Nancy had three sons within less than three years and took time off from teaching to raise them. She returned to her teaching career at Weston Elementary School, in Manchester, NH. in 1968 and continued until her retirement in 1991.

Nancy loved the beach and spent every summer with her children and family at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. When time permitted, and while raising her family, she made many beautiful creations of crewel work and needlepoint which has provided a wonderful legacy for her children and grandchildren. Nancy thoroughly enjoyed watching tennis, especially the championships, and her beloved game shows. She was an avid reader, and could easily read 10 books in a week, she very much enjoyed in her elder years her dog Seamus sitting on her lap, she maintained a perfect and beautiful penmanship her entire life. One of her greatest joys in her elder years was receiving letters from her grandson JC whom she taught and passed on her beautiful penmanship to. Nancy was a member of the National Education Association, the Manchester Education Association and the Manchester Association for retired teachers.

Nancy was predeceased by her husband John C. Dwyer Sr., and husband Roger A. Filteau, her sisters, June Bray Reilly, and Marilyn Bray Duffley. She is survived by her three sons, John C. Dwyer, Jr, his wife Donna, of South Portland, Maine, Jeffrey B. Dwyer of Everett, Washington, and Thomas F Dwyer of Manchester, New Hampshire, two grandsons, John C. Dwyer III, of Seattle Washington, and Timothy D. Dwyer of South Portland Maine, and a brother Samuel L. Bray, of North Hampton, New Hampshire, nieces and nephews.

At Nancy's request there will be no services. She will be buried with her husband, John C Dwyer, Sr. at Saint Joseph's cemetery in Bedford New Hampshire in the fall with only immediate family in attendance.

Nancy was very attached to the charity My Place Teen Centers in Biddeford and Westbrook Maine, 755 Main Street, Westbrook, ME 04092. In Nancy's memory please consider memorial donation on her behalf.