Background
Burns, Nancy Kay was born on February 9, 1942 in Borger, Texas, United States. Daughter of Oliver Leon and Nancy Beatrice (Stewart) Davis.
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Nancy Kay Burns
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Education
Student, Texas Technology U., 1970; Bachelor equivalency, St. Mary's U., 1980.
Career
Subsidiary teacher, Sweetwater (Texas) Indiana School District, 1968-1972; owner, operator, Daisy Patch, Sweetwater, 1972-1974; nurse, counselor intern, Starlite Village Hospital, Center Point, Texas, 1979-1980; treatment director, Rogers St. Halfway House for Women, Houston, 1981-1983; executive director, Huntsville (Texas) Alcohol/Drug Abuse Center, 1983-1987; unit counselor, coordinator, Texas Department Corrections, Huntsville and Navasota, Texas, 1986-1987; program coordinator Adapt, Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism Resources Counseling Center, Lawrence, Kansas, 1988-1993; director Gateway Foundation Center, South Texas Intermediate Sanction Facility, Houston, Texas, since 1993; private practice, Texas, since 1993. Member of advisory board Houston-Galveston Area Council Government, Houston, 1983-1986, Houston Area Women's Center, 1983-1986. Consultant Kansas Department Corrections, Topeka, 1988.
Achievements
Membership
Regional board directors Girl Scouts United States, Abilene and Sweetwater, Texas, 1972-1973. Board directors American Heart Society, Sweetwater, 1972-1973. Public relations auction chairman Multiple Slcerosis Society, Abilene and Sweetwater, 1972-1974.
Vice president Parent-Teachers Association Anson Jones Elementary School, Midland, Texas, 1969. Member National Association Relapse Prevention Specialists, National Association Alcohol/Drug Abuse Counselors, Society Americans for Recovery, Kansas Correctional Association, Kansas Alcoholism Drug Abuse Counselors Association (test evaluator 1992), Kansas Alcohol/Drug Counselors Association (board directors 1989-1992), Texas Association Alcohol/Drug Abuse Counselors.
Connections
Married Landon Ellis Derryberry, May 2, 1959 (deceased September 1975). Children: Lana Kay Derryberry, Lesley Gay Derryberry. Married Roland John Burns, May 5, 1981.
