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Nancy Fees Thornhill

   

  

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April 9, 2007

Nancy Fees Thornhill, 66, passed away on April 9, 2007. She became a teacher after graduating from ASU in 1963 and taught school at both Gilliland and McKemy Junior High Schools in Tempe. She also later taught a college adjustment course at ASU. She married Sam Fees in 1964. He was the father of four children, Samuel, Patricia, David and Brian. They added John to the family in 1967, Nancy's only child from "scratch" as she liked to say. Nancy married Gordon Thornhill in 1980. She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents and two stepsons. She is survived by five children, 17 grandchildren.