Nancy Ann Stewart, 79, of Fort Scott, went to be with the Lord on February 22, 2026.
Nancy was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts to Lillian and Bjame Haugland, and grew up and went to school in San Diego, California.
She married Chuck Stewart, December 3, 1964, while he was in the Navy in San Diego. Before their marriage she wrote to his parents conveying that she was “taking good care of their son and not to worry”.
Upon discharge from the Navy, they moved to Kansas.
Nancy was a graduate of Madison High School in San Diego and attended Fort Scott Community College while tutoring her husband in College Algebra.
They are the proud parents of three sons: Charles Jr., Michael, and Len, five grandchildren: Tracy, Katie, Bobby, Mary, and Johnny, and 2 great grandchildren: Henry and Simon.
She was a stay- at-home mom making sure her children had the very best in care in their younger years. Since she loved to work with children, she bought a preschool in Eldorado, KS having 62 young students. Later, she accepted a position as Children’s Director at First Baptist Church in Fort Scott.
Nancy was a very intelligent person and gifted in crafts and interior decorating. She loved her old Victorian House and held open house about every year displaying many of her homemade crafts and sewings.
She was a very loving person and loved to be around people. She loved the lord and expressed that through holding a weekly bible study in her home.
Nancy was preceded in death by their son, Len, who was in an automobile accident at the age of 20.
She will be cremated and family will privately gather in El Dorado, Ks to place her ashes at Len’s gravesite.
She will be SO MISSED by her husband who lovingly took care of her for the last 12 years of her life while she was suffering from Frontal Temporal Dementia.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main.
There will be no funeral.