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Obituary: Nancy Hanks Laitala
Nancy Hanks Laitala 1938 - 2021 BRUNSWICK Nancy Hanks Laitala, 82, joined her beloved husband of 54 years, Lt. Commander .
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Nancy Hanks Laitala
Nancy Hanks Laitala 1938 – 2021 BRUNSWICK Nancy Hanks Laitala, 82, joined her beloved husband of 54 years, Lt. Commander Theodore “Ted” Laitala, in heaven on Thursday, May 6, 2021. She died of natural causes with family present in her home in Brunswick, the same town where she was born on August 9, 1938, the daughter of Bradbury Hanks of Augusta and Jennie Pilley of Belfast. Nancy was a proud Mainer, full of local anecdotes for every occasion. She attended Brunswick public schools and kept a lifelong bond with the Brunswick High School “Girls of ’56.” She spent two years at Gorham State Teachers College before completing an Art Education degree at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. She met Ted Laitala of Van Etten, N.Y. while he was assigned to the Brunswick N