Nancy Sanford Hughes

Nancy Sanford Hughes

Nancy Sanford Hughes was at a loss after her husband’s death from cancer in 2001. During their 30-year marriage, she’d been mostly a stay-at-home mom, but one with a yen for travel and adventure. When well-meaning friends suggested she sell her rambling home in...
Lucille Smith

Lucille Smith

Lucille Smith recalled how a patient once told her that she knew she was having a stroke yet the ailing woman told concerned onlookers, “Don’t call an ambulance! I can’t afford it!” A longtime hospital administrator in Detroit, Smith had heard too may variations of...