Nancy McGuire, Publisher of the Nome Nugget for 34 years, Dead at 72

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Nancy L. McGuire, who owned and operated the Nome Nugget newspaper for 34 years, died in Nome of cancer on Thursday. She was 72.

McGuire was born in Pennsylvania on Dec. 15, 1943, and grew up on a farm. She taught science in high school and college and came to Nome in 1973 to teach at the Northwest Campus of the University of Alaska. For the next few years she had a variety of occupations, including fishing for herring roe, working with the Norton Sound Health Corp. and the Alaska Science Foundation and volunteering as an EMT and reporter for the Nome Nugget.

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