Nancy Jones Tennstedt ’50
Nancy J. Tennstedt, age 83, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Aug. 30, 2018 with her daughters at her side. Nancy’s life was challenged by a rare, untreatable neuro-degenerative disease called Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP).
Following Country School, she graduated from The Mary C. Wheeler School in Providence, RI in 1953 and received her Bachelor’s Degree from the Childhood Education Foundation in NYC. She married Welles Murphey in 1955 and raised their three daughters in New Canaan. Nancy married Eastern Airlines Captain Charles R. Tennstedt in 1982. They moved to Spruce Creek Fly-In Community in Port Orange, FL where she engaged in numerous volunteer activities.
Nancy is survived by her sister Patsy McCree, her daughters Cindy Ackerman, Lin Crispinelli and Debbie Murphey McFarland ʼ81, her grandchildren Michael Crispinelli, Nicholas Crispinelli, Linsey McFarland, Matthew McFarland and Madison McFarland, her ex-husband and lifelong friend Welles Murphey Jr. She was preceded in death by her husband of 28 years, Charlie Tennstedt, her sister Louise Beard and her granddaughter Stephanie Crispinelli.
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