RAPID CITY - Nancy Andrews Meiers, age 91, passed away in Rapid City on July 25, 2023. She was born on February 17, 1932 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised there by her family of modest means.  Nancy married John Colm Loofbourow in Minneapolis where his commission in the Navy took them to Panama, the Philippines, and San Diego.  With their first child born in Panama and their second two born in San Diego, the family of five eventually relocated to Yolo County in Northern California where she raised her five children in Woodland and Davis.

We mourn Nancy's death while remembering her passion, intelligence, beauty, and creativity.  Nancy was a loving and gentle mother of five children and welcomed all into her home.  She had an abiding love of animals and was known for rescuing lost, abandoned, or injured cats, dogs, baby birds, and other needy critters.  Amongst other things she was an excellent and creative cook, an artist, a skilled choreographer, a national champion equine vaulting team coach, a professionally trained ballet dancer, and a professionally trained fiery and beautiful Flamenco dancer.  As such, she was locally known for sharing her beautiful Flamenco dancing at churches, local theatres, school assemblies, festivals, and more.  In fact, Nancy loved music, dance and arts of all kinds and shared this with her children.  Throughout their youth they were introduced to the music of opera, classical, reggae, calypso, gospel, folk, rock, Broadway musicals and more, as well as to plays, ballets, operas, musical theatre, local indigenous cultures, the magic of "The City", and historical sites throughout California.  People who knew her in Davis remember her as freethinking, kind, welcoming, gracious, generous, and they remember her home as a joyful menagerie.

Nancy is survived by her sons, Fred Loofbourow and Robert Loofbourow, her daughters Amy Loofbourow and Jenni Loofbourow Oehler, her grandchildren, David Loofbourow, Jesse Oehler, and James Oehler, and her great grandchildren, Benjamin Oehler and Maya Oehler.  Her parents, Genevieve and Oliver Andrews, her sister, Terry Andrews, her daughter, Abby Loofbourow, and her grandson, Andrew Loofbourow preceded her in death.

Beloved Nancy, we cherish our sweet memories of you, are ever grateful for all you gave to us, and hope you are dancing up a fiery Flamenco storm while waiting for us to join you.

No memorial service is planned at this time for Nancy, but if you wish to make a donation in her name to the Western Hills Humane Society, a no-kill animal shelter, you can do so at the following link:

https://www.westernhillshumanesociety.com