Nancy Kathryn Haggert

Nancy Kathryn (Driver) Haggert, formerly of Richlandtown, PA, passed away peacefully in the early morning of February 4 at Doylestown Hospital. She was with her family.

Nancy was born on January 7, 1937, at Tenth Legion, Virginia, the fifth child and first daughter of Harry and Virginia (Rhodes) Driver. She was predeceased by her brothers Robert, James, Gene and Jack. She leaves behind her sister, Barbara Ann Driver Clemmons Baker of Fredericksburg, VA.

Raised on a farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Nancy graduated from Broadway High School. She attended the former Madison College, now James Madison University, and earned a teaching degree.

Nancy taught elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia before taking a teaching position in Germany at U.S. Army Garrison Schweinfurt. While in Germany, Nancy travelled extensively in Europe and the Middle East, and met her husband, Carl Lawrence Haggert, at the first military dance hosted early each school year by officers, welcoming new schoolteachers to the Schweinfurt expat community. They married in 1964.

Nancy and Carl welcomed three children: a daughter, Kimberly, and sons, David and Jon. The family lived in Michigan, Mississippi, and North Carolina, before settling in Pennsylvania in the 1970s, eventually buying a home in Richlandtown. The family were long time members of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Richlandtown. 

While raising her children Nancy worked part time as a substitute teacher and at Hess’s Department Store. When her children were older, she returned fulltime to teaching at Quakertown Elementary School, primarily in fourth grade. She was instrumental in coordination of the annual Pennsylvania Dutch Festival and admired by parents for making her students work hard and learn to the best of their ability. Her student’s loved the “Mrs. Haggert” classroom tradition of popping popcorn for the first snowfall of the year.

Nancy was an excellent cook and enjoyed baking. She without fail served delicious homemade dinners to her family right around six o’clock each evening. She loved reading and the color green. She had two special cats during her life, a Seal Point Siamese, Daisy Mae and a fluffy gray and white little cat, Spooker.

A few years before her retirement from teaching, she lost Carl in 1999. In retirement, Nancy enjoyed many wonderful times with her grandchildren and her beloved sister, Barbara Ann in Prime Hook Beach, DE at the family beach house. She and Barbara Ann shared many days of taking beach walks, hunting for beach glass and shells, and scouring thrift and junk stores all over lower Delaware.

Nancy had significant health challenges in the last years of her life and suffered from dementia. In caring for their mother, her children have shared the many responsibilities of seeing to her care, and in caring for her, they have strengthened their Haggert family bond. Kathleen Haggert is to be recognized for her loving support of Nancy and in helping the family in many ways.

Nancy leaves behind her children, Kimberly Fulham, wife of David Fulham of Ashburn, VA and their children, Elizabeth, Madeleine and Aidan. 

David L. Haggert and his wife Kim of Mullica Hill, NJ and their children Meredith and Meghan.

Jon E. Haggert of Bally, PA and Kathleen Haggert of Bechtelsville, PA and their children Alexis, Kaitlin and Samantha.

Nancy also leaves behind her treasured sisters-in-laws: Betty Driver, Eileen Driver and Jean Driver, all of Broadway, VA. She also leaves her special in laws from Carl’s family, the Abbott and Hook families, of Illinois and Colorado respectively.

A Celebration of Nancy’s Life will be held on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Richlandtown, PA. Visitation will be at the church at 11:00am, and the funeral service will immediately follow at 12:00pm. Interment will follow at Trinity Great Swamp U.C.C. cemetery in Spinnerstown, PA. A reception for friends and family will follow.

Memorial donations may be made to the Horseshoe Crab Conservation Fund, c/o the Ecological Research & Development Inc., 190 Main Street, Little Creek, Dover, DE 19901