{"id":31827,"date":"2017-04-20T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=31827"},"modified":"2017-04-20T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:07:09","slug":"nancy-heflin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/nancy-heflin\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Heflin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NANCY SUE HEFLIN\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\nMay 2, 1935 \u2013 January 8, 2017<br \/>\n<strong>HEFLIN, KENNETH L.<\/strong><strong> (T.55; F.58) S. Iowa; 55 School; Oregon; 57 Veneta: Valley; 61 Anchor Park, Anchorage: Missionary to Alaska; 65 Hon: First, Assoc. &amp; Missionary to Hawaii; SCA 67 (Jun 1) Hon: First, Assoc.; 69 Kailua; PSW 77; 79 (Jan) Lancaster; C-P 85; 86 Glendale: First; 93 Redlands: First; 97 R\u2019d (\u00b6355.2c); 97 (Nov 30) (Temple City: First); 98 (Mar) R\u2019d; 99 (Mar) (Lancaster); 99 R\u2019d; 02 (Pasadena: Holliston-75%); 03 R\u2019d; 11 (Jan 1-Jan 31) La Canada, Interim Pastor; 11 (Feb 1) R\u2019d<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nDevoted wife, mother and grandmother, Nancy was born in Iowa, during the Great Depression.\u00a0 Due to family circumstances, Nancy was placed in foster care.\u00a0 In 1939, Nancy was adopted by Ernest and Maxine Mortensen, a farm couple near Moorhead, Iowa.<br \/>\nNancy graduated valedictorian and attended what is now University of Northern Iowa.\u00a0 There she met Ken Heflin (STH&#8217;57). They were married on August 14, 1955 and began married life at 17 Yarmouth Street in Boston. \u00a0Ken was a student at the School of Theology and Nancy taught at Charles River School.<br \/>\nThey moved to Oregon, establishing a new Methodist Church.\u00a0 In 1961 they were commissioned missionaries. In Anchorage, she taught Sunday School and directed the children\u2019s choir. During the great Alaska earthquake, she gathered her children \u201cunder her wing.\u201d In Hawaii, Nancy taught preschool and, for eight years, was Media Assistant at Castle High School in Kaneohe. She loved hosting church groups in the parsonage.\u00a0 She established a young adult group at Kailua UMC called \u201cNancy\u2019s Thursday\u2019s Children.\u201d<br \/>\nAt Lancaster UMC the Heflins started organizing tour groups, leading over 30 tours.\u00a0 At Glendale: First, Nancy served as UMW Vice-President and President, and made her only pulpit appearance on a UMW Sunday at Redlands: First.<br \/>\nNancy believed the best about people, and her love knew no bounds.\u00a0 But her greatest joy was being with her family.<br \/>\nOn December 29, 2016, tests revealed stage 4 cancer.\u00a0 Because of her deep faith and trust in God\u2019s goodness, Nancy made the decision to request Hospice care.\u00a0 Ten days later she died peacefully at home with family members surrounding her.<br \/>\nNancy is survived by her husband of 61\u00bd years; one daughter, Elizabeth Snider (Ron); three sons: Travis Heflin (Anne); Mark Heflin (Sherry); and Gregory Heflin; plus seven grandchildren:\u00a0 Sara (Michael), Ryan, Josh, Aaron, James, Kelsey, and Brandt.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n-Rev. Ken Heflin and family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NANCY SUE HEFLIN\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 2, 1935 \u2013 January 8, 2017 HEFLIN, KENNETH L. (T.55; F.58) S. Iowa; 55 School; Oregon; 57 Veneta: Valley; 61 Anchor Park, Anchorage: Missionary to Alaska; 65 Hon: First, Assoc. &amp; Missionary to Hawaii; SCA 67 (Jun 1) Hon: First, Assoc.; 69 Kailua; PSW 77; 79 (Jan) Lancaster; C-P 85; 86 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}