the paper says she died on Tuesday 9 January of a
rifle shot, alone in a pickup parked near the boat ramp at the foot of
Wallowa Lake, after a day-long search;
she was found about 8:30 that evening. She was living in
Enterprise and working at the Wallowa County Nursing
Home, having earlier worked at the Fireplace, the Elks Lodge and the Gold Room in Joseph. The paper names her
Nancy Belcourt Wortman, 35, twice divorced, and says she was survived by two daughters living with their father,
Robert Belcourt, at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and by a son and a daughter who had been living with her.
The obituary followed a week later, on 18 January, headed “Nancy Wortman Services In Calif.”: it gives her
birth as
6 April 1937 at Niles, California, calls her the “daughter of William and Aileane Proeger”, and says
she had lived in Wallowa County for about six years and worked as a nurse’s aide at the nursing home. Her mother
(“Mrs. Earl Roberts, National City, Calif.”), a brother, a sister and four children survived her. The funeral was
held in California; the paper does not say where she was buried
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