Nancy Guthrie: The Life She Built Before the World Knew Her Name

The world learned Nancy Guthrie's name because she was taken from her home. But the people of Tucson have known her name for more than fifty years — and they know a woman the rest of the country has never met.

Nancy Ellen Long grew up in Fort Wright, Kentucky, attended Catholic schools, wrote for her college newspaper at the University of Kentucky, and married a mining engineer she fell in love with at a basketball game. They raised three children across two continents before settling in a burnt-adobe home in the Catalina Foothills of Tucson. Nancy was a full-time mother for nearly two decades. When her husband died suddenly at forty-nine, she was left alone with three children, her aging mother, and a brother with Down syndrome.

She didn't fold. She told her kids to get up and decide and do. Then she built a career at the University of Arizona from scratch — starting in public relations, creating a live music program at the hospital, rising to leadership, and earning election as president of the Southern Arizona chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. She raised a fighter pilot, a published poet, and Savannah Guthrie. She attended the same church every Sunday for thirty years. She was a grandmother who her family described as spunky, mischievous, and full of life.

This is the Nancy behind the missing poster. Her story is extraordinary. And she is worth every effort to bring home.

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