Nancy Amanda Wright Welborn, 96, died November 29, 2021 in Greenville, SC. She was born on August 29, 1925 in Asheville, NC to Thomas Ellis Wright and Sue Edna Jenkins both of Fairview, NC. She graduated from Asheville High School where she participated in the Glee Club. She attended Western Carolina University in Cullowee, NC and finished her education at St. Genevieve of the Pines College in Asheville. She worked as a medical records librarian at the local hospital. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Asheville where she taught Sunday School.
She married Greenville native Curtis Gresham Welborn on November 5, 1949, in Asheville, NC. From her early days in Greenville, she was active in the community beginning with leading a Girl Scout Brownie Troop at Augusta Circle Elementary near their home on Frontis Street. Nancy and Curtis were members at Trinity United Methodist Church and later Buncombe Street United Methodist Church where she was active in the choir, UMW, and Sunday School while raising a growing family of four.
She was a proud member of the Poinsett Club, Retired Military Officers Association, American Legion Auxiliary, La Sertoma Club, Greenville Women’s Club, Clarice Wilson Garden Club, The Nathanael Greene Chapter of the National Society Daughters of American Revolution, Greenville 51 United Daughters of the Confederacy, Piedmont Chapter of Daughters of the American Colonists, and Reedy River Falls Colonial Dames 17th Century. She has held numerous positions over the many years in these organizations.
She is preceded in death by her husband Curtis, parents and siblings.
She is survived by her longtime friend and companion, Carl R. Thackston as well as her family: Deborah Welborn Davenport (Graham) and grandsons, Berry and Blake (Myri) with great grandson, Logan; Curtis Gresham Welborn Jr. (Maggie Landreth) and grandson, Curt; Amanda Welborn Dicken and grandson, Michael (Lindsey) with great granddaughter, Kennedy and granddaughter, Kathryn Dicken Lopez (Alexander); Douglas Ellis Welborn (Jessica) and granddaughters, Ava and Ellis; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorials can be made to Buncombe Street United Methodist Church or McCall’s Hospice House of Greenville. Online memorials may be made at www.mackeycenturydrive.com.
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