Nancy Hood Stone
Friends of Nancy Hood Stone were invited to an open house to share mirth, memories, and music at Cherrywood Pointe in Plymouth, Minn., Saturday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Nancy’s ashes will be buried with the Hood family in Bowling Green.
She is survived by sons, Jeffrey Paul of Oregon, Glen Shannon and wife, Kathleen, Christopher Rodes and wife, Linda of Minneapolis, Minn.; grandchildren, Paul Sean and wife, Eve and children, Teylor, Makenzie, Kylon EJ and JR of Roseburg, Oregon, Nathan of Nashville, Tenn., and Lauren and husband, Lucas and daughter, Kaylee of Waconia, Minn.; and a brother, Rodes Smith Hood and wife, Beverly of Bowling Green.
Nancy grew up in Bowling Green, attended Ward-Belmont College in Nashville, Tenn., and the University of Colorado in Boulder before marrying Paul J. Stone and moving to Oregon. There she finished her degree in English at the University of Oregon and did some teaching before her three sons were born. The family moved to Grand Junction, Colo., in 1965 where Nancy taught English at Mesa State College.
Following divorce, she, Chris, and Glen moved to Minneapolis, Minn., in 1973 where she did graduate work at United Theological Seminary and the University of Minnesota before returning to teaching at Minneapolis and North Hennepin Community Colleges, retiring in 1993.
In 1994, Jack McGee, her high school “steady”, came back into her life, fulfilling a relationship begun in 1948. Jack died in 2001. In later years, Lincoln Hudson became a special friend and companion.
In addition to her deep love for her family and friends, Nancy was a lover of books and ideas. Other loves included cats, photography, family history, gardening, theatre, and travel. She was a member of the First Unitarian Society and P.E.O.
One of her favorite quotations was from Albert Camus: “In the midst of winter, I found there lay, in me, an invincible summer.”
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to the North Hennepin Community College Foundation, the Animal Humane Society, or Park Nicollet Methodist Hospice Special Needs Fund.
