Nancy Laird:
CLASS OF 1963
Union City High SchoolClass of 1963
Union city, TN
University of TennesseeClass of 1967
Martin, TN
The University of Tennessee, MartinClass of 1965
Martin, TN
Central Primary SchoolClass of 1957
Union city, TN
Westover Elementary SchoolClass of 1955
Union city, TN
Nancy's Story
I'm settled here in New Mexico after 31 years. I lost my husband in July 2024. I have one son and am a grandparent five times over--three boys and two girls. I'm a retired legal assistant. I'm getting used to widowhood; not sure I like living alone. But I'm staying busy with bridge, traveling, and haunting the estate sales and thrift stores. Let me hear from you!
Workplace
After bouncing around from real estate to collection work, to a payroll clerk for the Navy, to electronics manufacturing and personnel work, purchasing and advertising and public relations, I landed in the legal field in early 1983. My first boss was a wonderful teacher and friend (unfortunately, he died in 2019). He paid my tuition to attend paralegal school--I hope he felt he got his money's worth. I dived into paralegal work with both feet and never looked back. I retired as of December 31, 2007, after almost 25 years in the legal field. It was a great career.
Military
I was NOT an active-duty military member. But I was formerly married to a Navy man and my recently-deceased husband was in the...Expand for more
Navy also, retiring after giving 28 years to this country. And I worked for the Navy for 5 years as a military pay clerk in the late 60s and early 70s. Although I wasn't IN the Navy, I was a part of the Navy. My experience in being a part of the Navy community was great. I loved being a Navy wife--I felt that it sort of made me a different kind of person. There's an old saying that "It takes a lot of love to be a Navy wife." There's more truth to that than anyone can imagine. How many of you think that you could cope with keeping together a home, a family, a job, and other responsibilities while your husband is on a ship or in a submarine on the other side of the world for months at a time? The same things are happening today with our troops in other locales, and I know what the wives and families are experiencing, because I've been there too. They have my utmost support and admiration.
I loved being a Navy wife--I suppose that since husband retired from the Navy, you could still consider me a Navy wife. After all, he considered himself as Navy until the day he died.
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