In Loving Memory

                                  Obituary

                                                                       Nancy Ann Feit

                                                          July 28, 1936 - March 30, 2020

Nancy Feit, 83, passed away due to complications from heart failure and Parkinson’s Disease. 

Nancy was born in Evansville, IN, the first of four children, to Margaret and George Morris in 1936.  She attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, where she met her husband, Tom, and graduated with a degree in English. She and Tom were married in 1960, in Chicago, IL, and made their first home in Evanston. Tom and Nancy shared a love of musicals, art, literature and travel, which they passed on to their children and grandchildren.

Nancy’s life was one devoted to service. She chose teaching as her vocation, working first in Milwaukee in an elementary school, and later at Harbor Day School, in Corona del Mar, teaching third grade. Not one to sit and watch from the sidelines, Nancy volunteered her time and talents to a variety of organizations throughout her life, including campaigning for George McGovern, working to protect the California coastline through Friends of the Irvine Coast, advancing the causes of the League of Women Voters and, closest to her heart, advocating for and mentoring several children through CASA of Orange County.  

But most of her time and energy was dedicated to her husband and children, and later to her grandchildren. She is survived by her daughters Anne Brennan, Claudia Feit, and Clare (Bob) Tucci; grandchildren Ethan, Aaron, Eliza and Owen Callis and Tierney Brennan; brother David Morris; brother-in-law Gene (Barbara) Feit, and 16 nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Tom (2013) and son Paul (1990), as well as sisters Jane Allan and Shawn Morris.

Nancy will be remembered as a wonderful mother and grandmother who showed her love through baking pies and sour cream coffee cake, perpetual Christmas music from classical to popular playing during the Christmas week, teaching card games and songs from her childhood, bedtime reading and backscratching, innumerable beach days with grandchildren, trips to museums and historical sites, and handing down her favorite books.

Funeral and burial times will be determined when the current restrictions regarding Coronavirus have been lifted.  Donations in her memory are gratefully accepted toward CASA of Orange County at https://www.casaoc.org/give.