Nancy Anne Curry

Nancy Anne Poole Curry passed away peacefully October 9, 2026. Born on February 28, 1943, to parents Dorothy Louise Richardson Poole Thornton and Theodore Garland Poole, she grew up in Houston, where she attended Austin High School and met her husband of 64 years, John Randolph Curry. They married on September 15, 1962, and they had three children. Nancy graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1965 with a Bachelor's in vocal performance, and she completed a Master's of Business Administration in1990 from the University of Houston. Nancy started her long career in education in 1965 when she began teaching math at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston ISD, and she became the registrar at Bellaire High School in Houston ISD in 1995. When she finally retired in 2008 (for three months, before she returned to work half-time until 2023), she was the head registrar for all of HISD. In addition to her education career, Nancy worked for years as a paid soloist in numerous church choirs, and she was an active volunteer for decades with St. Paul's United Methodist Church and with the Beta Pi Chapter of the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity.

Nancy was predeceased by their son Randolph Mark Curry, brother Allen Robert "Bobby" Thornton, and her parents. She will be sorely missed by her husband, daughters Joyce Kay Curry (David McDougald) and Vicki Lurline Curry, grandchildren Joshua Lyle Hill (Carey), Hannah Curry-McDougald, Zachariah Curry-McDougald, her three great-grandchildren, her siblings Lynn Thornton, Bill Thornton (Susie) and Sherry Thornton Hollier (Dickie), and innumerable friends. The family is grateful to sister-in-law Jamie Block and to Houston Hospice, and a memorial service will be scheduled at St. Paul's United Methodist Church on Saturday, November 21. The family requests that donations be made to St. Paul's in lieu of flowers.