Avis de décès de Nancy-Elizabeth Harris - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

Nancy Elizabeth Harris Tiburon, CA Nancy Elizabeth Harris, 59, of Tiburon, CA, died on June 17, 2009, after a long struggle with breast cancer. She was born in Utica, NY, on November 5, 1949, the daughter of the late William P. Harris of Sanibel Island, FL, and Alpena, MI, and Gertrude M. Owens of Prospect, NY. She was educated in the New Hartford and Holland Patent public schools and was graduated from Miss Halls School in Pittsfield, MA, and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She also obtained a Masters in History of Art and a certificate in Art Conservation at New York University. She worked as a conservator of documents, specializing in paper, for the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum and the libraries of the University of Texas in Austin and the University of California at Berkeley. She is survived by her long-time friend and loving companion, Norman Meinke, of Tiburon, CA; her mother; and her brother, Clinton P. Harris, of Wellsley, MA, and his three children. She is also survived by four stepsisters, Judith, Nancy and Sally Owens and Susanne Koenig, and a stepbrother, Peter Owens. She was predeceased by her brother, Charles M. Harris, who died in 1955 at the age of two, and by her stepfather, John V. Owens. The family is especially grateful to Norman Meinke for the love and care he gave Nancy over the last twenty-five years and during her illness. Friends and family are invited to attend a memorial service at the gravesite in Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, on Saturday, June 26, at 10:30 a.m. and to lunch at the Sadaquada Golf Club, Whitesboro, immediately following. Arrangements are with the Dimbleby, Friedel, Williams & Edmunds Funeral Home, New Hartford.