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Nancy Elizabeth Strain Petruccione of Canyon died Sunday, May 26, 2002.
Memorial services will be at 4 p.m. today in First Presbyterian Church of Canyon with Dr. Don McDonald, pastor, officiating. Brooks Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Petruccione was born in Lancaster to Horace and Mary Lee Strain. The family moved to Canyon in 1927. She graduated from Canyon High School and received a bachelor of science in education from West Texas State Teachers College.
She taught grade school in Miami and spent several summers as a counselor for Life Camp in Connecticut and New Jersey. She taught for Amarillo Independent School District for eight years.
She did graduate studies in social work at UCLA before returning to Amarillo where she was employed as a social worker by Texas Department of Human Services until her retirement in 1975. After her retirement, she taught many local children at her Town and Country Kindergarten in Canyon.
She married Pete Petruccione on Jan. 20, 1945, in Canyon. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church of Canyon and served the church as a member of the choir, a member and president of Presbyterian Women's Association, a Sunday school teacher and superintendent, and was an elder.
She was a member of Panhandle Pen Women. Her writing reflected her interest in and study of the history of the southwestern United States, particularly the Texas Panhandle and Moreno Valley of New Mexico. Recent interests include Santa Fe Trail Association and the Spanish Peaks area of Colorado.
Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Nancy Teague and husband, Gayle, of Los Alamos, N.M.; a son, Nicholas Petruccione and wife, Julie, of Canyon; two grandsons, Jonathan Teague and wife, Deanna, of Los Alamos and Anthony Petruccione of Lubbock; a sister, Dorothy Stough of Citrus Grove, Calif.; four nieces, Ann Nightingale of Ardmore, Okla., Marcia Massey of Clayton, N.M., Wilda Lee Bell of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Carol Schwab of Kendalia; and two cousins, Martha Strain Phillips of Everett, Wash., and Charles Strain of Phoenix.
The family suggests memorials be to John Hyson School at Presbyterian Mission, P.O. Box 189, Chimayo, NM 87522.
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