Nancy Rose Ackerman Wright, of Camp Verde, died Jan. 14.
Born in Holcomb, Mo., Nancy and her husband Bob moved to the Verde Valley in 1978. She worked as a realtor from 1980 until 2007.
She is survived by her sister; two sons; seven grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and a great-great grandson.
A celebration of life will be held at Parkside Church on Saturday, March 2, at 1 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital or Northern Arizona Hospice.
Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rocks News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been featured in Editor & Publisher magazine. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet."
