Nancy P. Hanson, 63, died on May 1, 2018. Nancy enrolled at the University of Connecticut and later at Michigan State University 's (MSU) School of Criminal Justice in 1975. In her professional life, she never really held a job for more than five years, proclaiming "change is good, jobs get boring". She was a waitress, managed the Wild Horse Ranch's grocery, gas, rents, licensing, and fish bait operations, and was an undercover shoplifting shopper. She served as a juvenile and runaway services probation officer, did a stint as a Research Assistant at MSU, was a Customer Service Rep for Ambassador International, coordinated the Eastern Nevada Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, along with various typing, writing, editing, and proofreading gigs. She worked a stint for Shell Oil of Michigan, facilitating drilling in endangered wetlands, with a side effect of souring domestic wells. In Elko, she became the federal Bureau of Land Management's first Lightning Detection System (LDS) specialist (a 1979 high tech firefighting tool). Remaining in LDS, she also became a BLM fire logistical radio-dispatcher upon her 1980 Arizona arrival. In Arizona she became a program coordinator of social service agencies for the Arizona Dept. of Economic Security. Then she joined the Arizona Dept. of Education as a Chemical Abuse Prevention Specialist. Later she transferred to ASU as Clearinghouse Coordinator for the state's first Arizona Prevention Resource Center. Eventually she moved to the Arizona Dept. of Health Services to manage all domestic violence and crippled children's contract services. In 1991, she earned a Master's Degree in Public Administration from ASU. Thereafter she left government to start her own company, Hanson Consulting. She worked with police, Indian tribes, local, state and federal agencies, non-profits, rural hospitals, and schools. Nancy assisted in the start-up of a naturopathic medicine university and was hired by the national Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) to re-focus their core safety training mission. Nancy is survived by her spouse, Richard, a brother, an uncle and four nephews and nieces. She requested no formal funeral services or memorials. Nancy's Non-Memorial Celebration took place May 20, 2018, at the Hanson House. Memorials or donations may be given in Nancy's name to the Arizona Humane Society on their website.