Nancy Morgan Runnells

Nancy Morgan Runnells passed away peacefully in Houston on May 29, 2016, following a brief illness. Nancy was born on February 24, 1930, in Evanston, Illinois, to Truman Oliver Morgan and his wife, Jean Silsby Morgan, and spent her childhood in Illinois and Bronxville, New York. She attended Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and moved to Houston in 1960. Nancy married Clive Runnells in 1967, and together they raised her six children and her three stepchildren. Nancy is survived by her husband of 47 years, Clive Runnells and her children, Amy Goodrich and husband Hart; Jeff Firestone and wife Heather; Calvin Garwood and wife Sally; and John Garwood; her stepchildren, Helen Runnells DuBois and husband Ray; Clive Runnells III and wife Kathryn; and Anne Conner and husband Tom; her grandchildren, Elisa del Valle, Matthew Goodrich, Stephen Firestone, Andrew Firestone and Grace Firestone; her step-grandchildren, Pierre DuBois; Mary DuBois; Clive Runnells IV; Dudley Tarlton and wife Dessie; Katie Hamilton and husband Kollin; Emily Hempel and husband Peter; and Will Conner; five step-great-grandchildren; and her sisters, Elizabeth Morgan Chase and Ellen Scott. She is preceded in death by her sons, David Firestone and Pierce Runnells.