Nancy Merlene Shumway Hancey- Our wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend, returned
home to our Heavenly Father on September 18, 2005. She was given to this earth by her beloved
Father in Heaven to Merlin and Ruth Shumway and she grew up in Kanab, Utah.
Mom had a beautiful wayabout her and everywhere she went she made friends instantly.Her time
on this earth was always spent in the service of others.She will be greatly missed and survived by
her eternal companion Max G. Hancey of Bountiful, her three children Michael K. (Cathy) Hancey of
Port Washington, Wisconsin, Jill (Jay) Elliott of Springville, Carolyn (Robert) Wiechert of Granger, her
beautiful grandchildren Tara, Dylan, Angie, Rachel, Elizabeth, Cody, Erin, Rebecca and Jenna. She is
also survived by her sister Dee Lunden of Phoenix, Arizona, and by many nephews, nieces, cousins
and friends.
She was preceded in death, and welcomed into the next world by her parents, brother and sister-in-law
Roden G. and Naomi Shumway, brother-in-law Ted (E.T.) Lunden, grandson Benjamin Max Hancey and
nephew Phillip M. Christensen.
Mom we love and miss you!
Funeral services were held on Saturday September 24, 2005 at the Bountiful 16th Ward Chapel with
nterment in the Kanab City Cemetery.Funeral directors Lindquist’s Bountiful Mortuary
Published in the Southern Utah News, Sept 28, 2005
Steve Shumway - shumways@@petershumway.org
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