Joan Elizabeth Nixon, 75, formerly of Wabash, died Monday, October 24, 2016, at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City. She was born July 1, 1941, in Peru to Joseph and Marian (Hamp) Nixon. She was a 1959 graduate of Knox High School, in St. James, N.Y., a 1964 graduate of Wellesley College in Wellesley, …read more.