Barbara J. Nuss

Barbara Jean Moody Nuss of Taos, NM, 80, died August 19th, 2012, at her home. She was born on September 18, 1931 and was always proud to share the same birthday with Greta Garbo. A child of The Great Depression, Barbara spent her early years making paper dolls out of newspaper and putting pennies on railroad tracks, wishing they would be worth more than one cent after a train drove over them and caused them to stretch out and be larger than before. Barbara was President of her senior class in Sibley, Iowa, and devoted her life to her children, campaigns for worthy political figures and causes, and to good music and well written books. She particularly loved Etta James, Alberta Hunter, Chris Cristofferson and Prince, and read everything that Carl Hiassen, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Russo and Joyce Carol Oates wrote, among many, many others. Barbara was notorious for "Barb's barbs," and coined many a phrase herself, including "I've been rich and I've been poor; pie crust is good."Many said that knowing Barbara was like being a member of an elite club. She is preceded in death by her husband, Chief Master Sergeant Roger W. Nuss, USAF; her parents, Miles Dale Moody and Lucille Lanham Moody; stepmother Myrtle Moody (whom she dearly loved), and a daughter, Diana Dale Nuss. She leaves her sister, Marilyn Moody Krause of Winnebago, Nebraska; surviving daughters Marie Nuss Felder of Montgomery, Alabama and Susan Nuss of Taos, New Mexico; a son, Daniel Dale Nuss of Montgomery, Alabama; grandson Jeremy Dale Cobb, granddaughter Barbara Nuss, and 3 beautiful great grandchildren, Hadley, Lilly and John Thomas. Also very dear friends Terry Robinson of Montgomery, Alabama, and devoted son-out-law, Jeffrey Shannon of Taos, New Mexico. There will be no service; donations may be made to Southern Poverty Law Center, PO Box 5604, Montgomery, AL 36103-5604.