Nixie Petranovich, 84, of Winslow passed away on April 08, 2019.
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A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, April 12, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Visitation will be held at 10 a.m. in the Relief Society Room. Interment will take place at the Desert View Cemetery.
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Nixie was born on June 26, 1934. She spent most of her life in Winslow. She loved stained glass, yard sales, and arts and crafts. Her greatest passion in life was talking to other people.
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She greatly enjoyed work that incorporated her passions and held several such jobs over her lifetime. She was a crew clerk for the Santa Fe Railroad, a sales associate of Walmart, a stained glass course instructor, a waitress at the Entree Restaurant, and she was the first ever car hop employed at the original A&W Root Beer Stand. She was a true country girl that loved nature and would always stop to appreciate the world and everything around her.
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She is survived by her husband, Glenn Marvin Petranovich; her sons, Richard Marvin Petranovich and Glenn Ray Petranovich; her daughter, Tammy Lee Hansen; and three grandchildren.
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She is preceded in death by her mother, Lois Mildred Marcus; her father, Wallace Steel Hancock; and her son, Wallace Carl Petranovich.
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