Nancy Annette Baxley Greer

On July 25, 2023, Nancy “Nanny” Annette Baxley Greer went ahead to Heaven to prepare a place for her loved ones. She was many things to many people. She was a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, spouse, sister, aunt, niece, friend, and Christian.

Born on March 6, 1963, to Edward Baxley and Bonnie Chesshier, Nancy was the youngest of 4 girls. She was raised in Dallas, Tx, and resided there for most of her life, before moving to Kaufman County, Texas. She told a tale of how her daddy wanted her to be a boy, but she was a Daddy’s Girl. He bought her some toy dump trucks. She loved those trucks and decided that she wanted to be a dump truck driver just like him when she grew up. She told stories of how beautiful and fun her mother was, and how handsome her father was. As a young woman growing up in Pleasant Grove, a suburb of Dallas, she loved hanging out with her older sister, Cathy, and once said that everywhere Cathy went, she wanted to go. Everything Cathy did, she wanted to do.

She always loved children, and babysitting her nieces and nephews. She shared that she always knew she wanted to be a mother and have her own family. On Dec 31, 1979, she became a young mother for the first time to her own daughter. On Nov 18, 1985, she would welcome her second daughter. In 1992 she would meet, and marry, Jay Greer, the man she spent the next 31 years of her life loving, also a native of Pleasant Grove.

She worked a series of small, odd jobs to get by and help support herself while she was a single mother, but always longed for an education. She had left school at a very young age, having had to grow up very fast. She would finally get to pursue an education and obtain both a GED and a college-level diploma much later in her life. A source of great pride to her. She worked as an online therapist and life coach while continuing to take additional courses in various areas of interest, and earning multiple degrees. She worked seasonally as a tax preparer and was honored to help her loved ones, and clients, navigate the daunting task that is pleasing the I.R.S.

Her hobbies included playing pool and dancing with James Greer, and very much enjoyed reading the Bible every day. She played Words with Friends, crocheted, loved a good Dr Pepper and a Marlboro, and teaching her grandkids about the “groovy” 60s and ’70s. She enjoyed the moments that the kids and grandkids would gather with her and Jay at local breakfast spots, or Mexican food (aka margarita) lunches with her 2 daughters, family cookouts at her home where we gathered and had drinks while the kids played, and we playfully teased her for the way she “tawlked.” She was a Southerner, through and through. She also enjoyed long phone conversations with loved ones, watching movies with her grandkids, and writing. Her biggest passion, outside of family, was music. She would have listened to everything including polka, if the family hadn’t set sound boundaries.

She is survived by her children, Bonnie Hettich, and husband Alan Lawson, of Kemp, TX. Brandy (Hettich) Hicks, and husband Jerry Hicks, of Greenville, Tx. Her husband and best friend of 31 years, James “Jay” Greer. She also leaves behind grandchildren (by age) Kelly Lawson, Ethan Hettich, Joseph Hettich-Gafford, Ireland Gafford (partner Travis Thomas), Isaiah Hettich-Lawson, Aiden Hettich-Lawson, Kailey Lawson, and Bridget Greer. She leaves behind 6 great-grandchildren: Xander, Xavier, Emory, Beaux, Briella, and Boston. Sisters Terry Butler and Betty Nix, and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends she called family. She is also survived by children that considered her to be a Mom: Cheryl Hettich, Merrideth Kluth, and spouse Robbie, Alicia Leverett, Joseph Lee Hettich, Jr, and Jacob Greer.

She is preceded in death by her grandparents, her parents, her stepfather Lloyd Selman, her parental in-laws, Larry T. Greer and Patsy Lowrance, her beloved sister Cathy Baxley (Hyden), brother-in-law Clint Greer, nephew James Nix, great niece Alexis Thompson, niece Amanda Gardiner, great-grandson Roman Oliver Gafford, and many other friends and family members that she cherished. What a day of rejoicing she had when she went to her Heavenly home to reunite with the ones she missed so very much!

In lieu of flowers, please donate to the American Diabetes Foundation or the American Heart Association.