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Jack and Nancy Gaines With Children

Files

Title

Jack and Nancy Gaines With Children

Subject

Scher, Nancy Anne Gaines
Gaines, Jack A. (1937-2015)
Gaines, Nancy Lee McClanahan
Gaines, Jackson Gregory "Guy"

Description

Photograph of the Gaines family.

Pictured (l to r) are: Nancy Anne (Gaines) Scher, her father, Jack A. Gaines, his wife, Nancy (McLanahan) Gaines, and their son, Jackson Gregory "Guy" Gaines.

Both Jack and Nancy were educators in Shenandoah County. Nancy grew up in Maurertown.

She and Jack married in 1962.

Jack taught school at Central High School, Stonewall High School, and Clarke County High School. He served on the football coaching staff at all three schools, coached little league baseball and helped establish Senior League Baseball in Shenandoah County. After a thirty year teaching career he farmed until poor health forced him to quit.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

Undated

Contributor

Identified in 2014 by Judy Reynolds who remembered having Guy Gaines in her 2nd grade class in Toms Brook.
Additional biographical information was extracted from Jack Gaines' obituary on the Find-A-Grave website and other public sources.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Identifier

028475

Original Format

Film Negative

Citationzork

Morrison Studio, “Jack and Nancy Gaines With Children,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/71789.

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