Nancy Lynn Mudd
Nancy Lynn Mudd
May 27, 1963 ~ December 19, 2001
GLASGOW, Ky. — Nancy Lynn Povey Mudd, a Leitchfield native who taught special-education students for 18 years in the Grayson County, Caverna and Glasgow Independent schools, died Wednesday of complications from lung cancer. She was 38 years old.
Mrs. Mudd was a graduate of Grayson County High School and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. The Glasgow Independent School District recently named her Elementary Teacher of the Year for 2001. WBKO-TV in Bowling Green honored her earlier this year with its Hometown Hero award for outstanding service to her community.
“I’m the luckiest person in the world,” she told WBKO, “because every day, I get to go to school and do what I love to do. Then at the end of the day, I get to go home and be with my family. And it doesn’t get much better than that.”
Mrs. Mudd was the daughter of Dolores Povey and the late Fred G. Povey Jr. of Leitchfield. In addition to her mother, Mrs. Mudd is survived by her husband, Ricky Mudd, and their children Eric, Beth, Mallory, Charlie, and Allison all of Glasgow; her mother-in-law, Faustine Mudd of Leitchfield; three sisters, the Rev. Joan Povey Clagett of Elizabethtown, Vannah Povey McClure of Louisville and Betty Povey Clemons of Peonia; and one brother, Fred G. Povey III of Oakton, Va. One daughter, Chelsea Mudd, was stillborn.
On Thursday, public visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. CST at Hatcher & Saddler Funeral Home in Glasgow, followed by a remembrance service at 8 p.m. conducted by the Rev. Joan Povey Clagett. On Friday, public visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. at First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 501 West Chestnut Street in Leitchfield.
Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Leitchfield, conducted by Pastor Tim Stutler and the Rev. Joan Povey Clagett. Burial will be at the Rabbit Flats General Baptist Church near Caneyville.
A memorial fund has been established for the family. Anyone wishing to contribute may send donations to the Nancy Mudd Family Memorial Fund, c/o South Central Bank, P.O. Box 667, Glasgow, KY 42142-0667.
