(photo lifted from her FB page. Sorry)
Sunday
evening I got word that my old friend Nancy Cary had passed away from
complications during a surgical procedure. I met Nancy in San Jose, I
guess in 1983. She was dating my roommate and high school buddy Don
Cary. You guessed it, they eventually married.
We
all attended DeAnza College. Don studied film, Nancy a poet. We
had a great time, then Don went and got accepted to the San Diego State
film program, and they left town.
I
sent Don a text today offering my condolences and all that. He wrote
back about the San Jose Bees minor league baseball games we used to
go to. [See Jan. 27, 2011 post concerning Kirby Puckett.] Don
and I and Bodie from Tennessee and Tex from Mississippi. Beers you
could barely lift for a buck and much heckling of players on both
sides. Nancy fit right in. I had forgotten how much so.
I
stayed more in touch with Nancy, through facebook, over the years.
Her posts showed a deep joy and involvement in the area's writing
scene and an organization called So Say We All in San Diego. And now,
surely, there is a whole community as stunned and shocked as I am at
her passing.
You
are already missed, Nancy.
