Nancy Guest

Nancy Jones Guest was born on August 1, 1943 and passed at her home in West Palm Beach, Florida, on the morning of January 10, 2026. A fourth-generation West Virginian, she was the daughter of Herbert Erskine Jones, Sr. and his second wife, Evelyn Minter Jones, of Oak Hill. When she was about six years old, her parents divorced, so Nancy divided her time between Palm Beach and other locations in Florida, where her mother lived, and summered with her father on Lundale Farm in Oak Hill. The West Virginia part of her family included two halfbrothers, Charles Tandy Jones and Herbert Erskine Jones, Jr., both of Charleston, and a halfsister, Adeline Jones Voorhees, of Charleston and Merry Point, Virginia. These half-siblings, the children of Mr. Jones’s first wife, were young adults during Nancy’s childhood, so she occupied a middle ground between her siblings and their children. She awed all of these relatives with her elegant fashions, jewelry, and exquisite manners. She was probably the first person to wear a bikini at the White Oak Country Club. Nancy became particularly close to Adeline and her

husband, Coerte, and the Voorhees children. After attending Greenbrier College in Lewisburg, West Virginia, in 1965, Nancy married Peter Thomas Denny, a lawyer from Charleston. The marriage eventually ended in divorce, and Nancy moved to West Palm Beach, Florida. There she embarked on a revitalization of her life, building an elegant house, exploring healthy foods, developing new habits and pursuing local service opportunities. She volunteered for a recovery hotline and mentored many people in her community. Nancy possessed an adventurous spirit. She took long solo trips with organizations like National Geographic two or three times a year, often for a month at a time. Early in 1990, she

married Joe Thomas Guest, an enthusiastic hunter, and they traveled together. They cruised the Amazon and the Nile, visited Russia and Poland and camped on safari in Kenya. In Asia, they went to China, Mongolia, Vietnam, and Thailand. When Joe hunted, Nancy honed her photography; fascinated by the people she met, she made portraits to remember them. Their house was full of objects collected on their travels and hundreds of pictures. Nancy lost her siblings in 2010, 2011, and 2019. She is survived by eleven nieces and nephews, their children, and grandchildren from the Jones family, and the children, grandchildren and cousins of Joe Guest, who died in 2020. She did not want a memorial or a celebration of life service, but asked that her ashes be scattered at Lundale Farm along with those of Joe and their dog, Ziggy.

The families thank A Nurses Registry in West Palm Beach for their extraordinary care of Nancy.