Nancy Ann Egan (Lindgren)

She was botrn on February 8, 1944, in Hancock, MI, to Emil and Helen Lindgren. She grew up on a farm in Toivola, MI, homesteaded by her grandparents who emigrated from Scandinavia via the Hudson Bay to settle in the Upper Peninsula.

The Lindgren family farm employed many local people raising livestock and produce, living off the land in the beautiful and remote Misery Bay area along Lake Superior’s shores.

She attended elementary school in a one room school house and took the initiative to better educate herself at an early age, showing up before classes began to have coffee with her school teacher and learn how to read. She skipped the 2nd grade. She took weekly piano lessons in the town of South Range, nearly 18 miles away.

After graduating Jeffers High School in Painesdale, MI, in 1961, she attended Michigan Tech in Houghton, MI, while working at Hamar-Quandt Co., a locally owned paint store.

Afterwards, she moved to Detroit and was hired by General Motors where she met her future husband, Gerard Francis Xavier Egan, PHD, a toxicologist from Brooklyn, NY. They married in 1975 and soon moved to New Jersey where Dr. Egan took a job with Exxon’s Biomedical Sciences division.His job afforded them the opportunity to relocate to Brussels, Belgium, for almost two years.

Upon returning to NJ, Nancy gave birth to her only child, Gerard Matthew Egan, in 1979. She and her family moved to Whitehouse Station, NJ in 1983, where she lived until 2019 when she moved to be closer to her son in California.

Nancy was a loving, devoted mother and a passionate woman who loved art and music. She was an extremely accomplished artist herself, creating dozens of original works from the early 1980s up until her last few years living in NJ. She was a spectacular cook, loved animals and the great outdoors, practiced yoga, was a voracious reader and had an incredible sense of style. She volunteered with Meals On Wheels as well as several local animal shelters.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Gerry; sister, Patricia Lindgren; half sister, Hilda and brother, Roger.

She is survived by her son, Gerard and his wife Carolyn, as well as brothers Ken and Dicky.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in her name to The New Jersey Audubon Society.