Nancy N. Deen
Nancy N. Deen
1923-2017
Funeral services for Nancy N. Deen, 94, of Wills Point, are scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, May 13, 2017, at First Baptist Church in Wills Point under the direction of Hiett’s LyBrand Funeral Home. Burial will follow at White Rose Cemetery. Mrs. Deen passed away Monday, May 8, 2017, at her home.
She was born Jan. 19, 1923, in Los Angeles, Calif. to Harvey Newland and Joyce Percey Newland. She was raised in Los Angeles and graduated from Pasadena High School. She attended college at UCLA where she met Jack Deen. They married in Pasadena on Jan. 22, 1946. The Deen’s lived in Wills Point and started Deen Dairy in 1955, where they raised 8 children. She graduated from East Texas State University in 1981, with a finance degree. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Wills Point and volunteered in the baby room for 65 years. She was a bookkeeper for White Rose Cemetery and the First Baptist Learning Center. She served on the Board of Directors for First Baptist Learning Center and was selected Wills Point Woman of the Year. She never said no to an extra person at her table.
She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Jack Egbert Deen in 1976; and a sister, Margaret Newland Cooper.
Survivors include her children, Margaret Robin Deen Grant and husband, Richard of Plano, Jackie Ragland and husband, Keith of Wills Point, John Deen and wife, Linda of Wills Point, George Deen and wife, Lenna of Dallas, Nancy Deen Giles of Bloomsburg, Penn., Patty Brightwell of Wills Point, Bobby Deen and wife, Debbie of Wills Point and Richard Deen and wife, Cathy of Edgewood; twelve grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren and four great-great- grandchildren; brother, Edward Harvey Newland and wife, Anne of Calif.; sister, Patricia Hoffman and husband, Walter of Calif.; and brother-in-law, Ted Deen Sr. of Wills Point.
Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, May 12, 2017, at Hiett’s LyBrand Funeral Home in Wills Point.
In lieu of flowers the family would like donations made to:
The Wills Point Primary School Library, 447 Terrace Dr., Wills Point, TX 75169
