Nancy S. Macdougall

LADY'S ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA -  Word has been received of the recent death, December 10, of Nancy Schein MacDougall from acute and chronic illnesses.  She died in Beaufort Memorial Hospital after less than one week's admission.  A native and life-time resident of Beaufort, Nancy was born in Savannah, GA on November 18, 1945 daughter of the late Lois & Meyer Schein.  Her husband, the late Daniel D. MacDougall preceded her in death in 2002. Surviving are her brother Stephen Schein (wife Marianne) of Beaufort, her sister-in-law Jeannie MacDougall MacArthur (husband The Rev. Rick MacArthur) of Maplewood, MN, her niece Elizabeth Schein Pearson (husband Vincenc Pearson), and three nephews including Stephen Schein, Jr. (wife  Ashley Williams Schein) of Yorktown, VA, Andrew M. MacArthur (wife Brandi Sellers MacArthur) of Austin, TX, Cameron K. MacArthur (of Chestnut Ridge, NY), three great nephews,  cousins and many dear friends also survive. Though Nancy was graduated from Graham-Eckes school in Palm Beach, Fl., she claimed Beaufort High School as her alma mater as well, class of 1964 and spent many satisfying hours organizing functions for reunions with her class and the class of 1963.  A real people person, Nancy did not know a stranger. Her greatest pleasure was dining out with friends for tea, special occasions, class reunions, Red Hat club wherever the food was known to be delicious.  She rarely met a restaurant she didn't like.  She avidly kept up with camp buddies, college classmates, co-workers, and neighbors via computer, cell, home telephone and blue tooth auto telephone system.  Though she loved her friends dearly, she maintained call forwarding and just HAD to check it whenever it interrupted her calls.  Nancy graduated from Webber College (now Webber International University) in Florida and then served as school secretary for Beaufort High School where she met her late husband Dan.   They dated for a few years.   It was not initially apparent to their families that this would be a lasting relationship so the couple eloped January 31, 1975. For twenty seven years Nancy and her late husband Dan gave a great deal to the community.  They ran a phone answering business Message Minders during the 80's (before everyone carried cell phones and businesses usually provided a live voice to receive calls).  They were very active together supporting Migrant Ministries in connection with the Beaufort Baptist church-helping with Sunday School, Bible School, entertaining Migrant families in their homes and encouraging migrant family children her husband taught in public school.  On two occasions both Nancy and her husband Dan participated in mission events in Piedras Negras, Mexico building homes.  Together they were founding members of Sea Island Presbyterian Church.  Both were Toastmasters. Nancy is fondly remembered for her devotion to her husband and his work, for her bold actions to keep people in touch with each other, her capacity to maintain friendships and bring classmates, campmates, and old friends together, her meticulous scrapbook-keeping of life events, her light-hearted ways that would lift up friends' spirits, her joy at driving her Honda CRV around town, her deep sense of gratitude for life's gifts and what people did for her, her tenacity in times of challenge, her uncanny way of getting the resources she or a friend needed, her intuitive sense of direction in the low country, and her confidence that God always had her best interests at heart.  Memorial Services will be held on Saturday, January 21 at 2 PM at Sea Island Presbyterian Church; 81 Lady's Island Drive; Beaufort  29907. Donations may be made to the Migrant Ministry C/O The Baptist Church of Beaufort, P. O. Box 879, Beaufort, SC 29901 or to Webber International University WIU, c/o: Steve Warner, PO Box 96, Babson Park, FL 33827.