Nancylee Beattie

Mass of Christian Burial for Nancylee Beattie, a 90-year-old Buffalo resident who passed away Wednesday at Johnson County Health Care Center will be celebrated Saturday, April 22, at 11:00 a.m. at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Buffalo with Father Jim Heiser officiating.  Interment will be in Willow Grove Cemetery with graveside services to immediately follow the mass. A Vigil Service will be held at the Harness Funeral Home Chapel on Friday at 6:00 p.m. Visitation will be held at the Harness Funeral Home on Friday from 1:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Donations in Nancy’s memory may be made to the Buffalo Senior Center at 671 West Fetterman in Buffalo, Wyoming 82834. Online condolences may be made at www.harnessfuneralhome.com.

Nancylee was born on March 26, 1933, in Buffalo, Wyoming to Michael and Leora Hakert. She grew up in Buffalo and graduated from Johnson County High School with the class of 1951.  After high school, she attended St. Mary’s Nursing School in Kansas and received her Registered Nurse Degree in 1954.  After nursing school, she moved home to Buffalo and went to work at the Johnson County Memorial Hospital where she worked for eighteen years. She was married in 1956 to Jim Miller and they made their home in Buffalo and had Four children. Nancylee moved to Dallas, Texas in 1971 and in 1981 she was married to Harvey Beattie, and they lived in Dallas.  In 1972 she went to work as a nurse at Doctor’s Hospital in Dallas where she worked for twenty-seven years.  In 1999 she returned to Buffalo where she worked at the Buffalo Senior Center until she retired but continued volunteering there for another ten years.  She was glad to be back home and continued living in Buffalo until her death.

Nancylee was an accomplished seamstress, she loved spending time in the mountains, but her passion was spending time with her family and friends. She is survived by three daughters, Tamora Sue Miller of Buffalo, Stacy Webster and her husband Bob of Dallas, Texas, and Hazel Michelle Miller and her husband Paul also of Buffalo; one son Andrew Miller and his wife Ellen of White Salmon, Washington; two stepsons, Scott Beattie of Illinois and Todd Beattie and his wife Cindy of Illinois; nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by two husbands, Jim Miller and Harvey Beattie, her parents, one brother Andrew Hakert, three sisters Eulala Elsom, Carol Hibler, and Hazel Balden and one grandson Sam Webster.