Nancy Frances Graham

Nancy Frances Graham passed away peacefully in her sleep on Monday, Nov. 9 in Round Rock, Texas. Sixty-nine years old, Nancy had dedicated her life to taking care of other people. It was both her profession – she was a registered nurse - and her passion. In addition to her full-time nursing career, she was the caregiver for both her maternal grandmother and her mother, until their deaths at age 94 and 85 respectively.

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1951 to Hugh Christopher Graham and Frances Grace Smiley Graham, she obtained her nursing diploma in 1972 at Touro Infirmary School of Nursing in New Orleans. She was a 1968 graduate of St. Joseph Academy in New Orleans.

Nancy loved being an RN, whether she was the charge nurse of an ICU, running an inpatient hospice facility or working in home health pediatric care. With thick, shiny, silver-white hair since she was in her mid-thirties, Nancy was easy to find in a crowd.

She loved dogs and tended to own large ones which she never seemed able to train. She never met a vegetable she liked, and had an extraordinary memory especially about family history. Nancy had the ability to make people laugh with her cunning sense of humor, memorable facial expressions and rolling eyes.

Nancy loved to celebrate all holidays and always gave generously to family and friends. And if a family member needed help, she showed up anytime anywhere to offer assistance.

She had lived in Pflugerville, Texas since Hurricane Katrina damaged the New Orleans area in 2005. Nancy is preceded in death by her parents and brother Hugh Christopher Graham IV. She is survived by her sisters Jeanne Graham and Carol Graham Calhoun, brother-in-law Larry Calhoun, nieces Chrystie Calhoun and Metta McNeese and long-time friend, Dan Martin – all of Pflugerville, Texas.

Private services. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the ASPCA (aspca.org).