Nancy Flavin Ferrucci of Brasstown passed away Thursday, April 15, 2021, from congestive heart failure. She was 76.
Nancy was born in the Hyannis Hospital to Anna (Horton) and Clifford Rourke (both deceased), and she grew up in Chatham, Mass., spending endless hours enjoying the beaches and beauty of our rural peninsula.
She moved to New York to be the governess of a large family in her late teens but returned to Chatham every summer with the Hartnett family to once again reunite with her family and enjoy the relaxed lifestyle of Chatham. She was an avid water skier and an exceptionally talented one.
When the five children grew up and moved out of the home, Nancy came back to Chatham and worked many years at the Cape Cod Five Savings Bank. She met her husband-to-be (Bud Flavin) in Orleans, and they moved to Florida. She was widowed after only a few years but chose to stay in Florida, now her home.
For five years she was a heavily valued volunteer with the ARC, contributing selflessly to the success of the Vero Beach organization and receiving numerous awards. She adopted an elderly developmentally disabled “daughter,” Shirley, and took her into her home. Eventually, she met and married Bob Ferrucci.
After that memorable year of vicious hurricanes that devastated Florida, Nancy and Bob said goodbye to Sebastian and moved to a beautiful log cabin in mountains of Brasstown. They were excited to pursue a totally different life, where there was an abundance of wildlife and even an occasional bear managed to get his share of birdseed from their birdfeeder. It is a beautiful country and they really loved it there.
Nancy will be remembered as caring, generous, creative and very much an animal lover. She was sweet and kind, and will be sorely missed.
She is survived by her husband, Robert; her sister, Patricia Eldridge and her husband, Edward; and her son, Scott Masaschi. Scott, his wife, Shane, and their daughter, Taylor, were very special to Nancy as was Meg Hartnett Goncalves, the daughter in the family she lovingly raised for so many years. Nancy will be missed by her loving friends and neighbors in North Carolina.
Nancy’s wish was to be cremated and her ashes spread upon her mountains.
A memorial service will be held at a later date.