Jeannette Ames McIntosh

Born at Glockner Hospital in Colorado Springs, CO on May 11, 1937, Jeanette Alice Ames

McIntosh passed away in Denver, Colorado on May 17, 2025. She was 88 years old.

She is survived by her brother James Ernst McIntosh of Dallas, TX; her sister-in-law Sammye

Conway McIntosh of Dallas, Texas; her nephew and his wife Brian & Jo Ann McIntosh, of Denver, CO;

her nephew Craig McIntosh, of St. Louis, MO; her former sister-in-law Sandy McIntosh of

Farmington, MO and nephews Quin McIntosh, Keelie McIntosh, Duncan McIntosh, and Nolan

McIntosh.

She graduated from South High School in Denver in 1955. She was a member of the Girl Scouts

in Salt Lake City and the Rainbow Girls in Denver.

Jeanette started her undergraduate career at Colorado State University where she was a charter

member of the Epsilon Beta Chapter of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, started in 1956. She

transferred to Denver University and graduated in August 1959 with a bachelor’s degree in

Home Economics. She later finished a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Counseling from

the University of Connecticut.

She lived for much of her adult life on the East Coast, in Boston and Southeast Connecticut. She

taught classes in human sexuality and counseling at Boston Women’s College and The

University of Connecticut. She was a life-long fan of the UCONN Huskies women’s basketball

team.

Jeanette spent most of her professional life as a counselor, helping individuals and couples with a

host of issues, especially around sex and sexuality.

She loved the Atlantic Ocean and spent many hours combing the beaches for sea glass and

seashells. She loved spending time on Block Island and Nantucket Island and in Fortunes Rocks,

Maine.

As a schoolgirl, Jeanette had a crush on Gene Autry, but the love of her life was her husband

Gilbert “Gib” Nass, a professor of human development and family relations at the University of

Connecticut. She considered his four boys David, Craig, Gary and Jay her family.

She was known for always buying wooden toys for her nephews in the 1970’s and boycotting

Christmas to protest the war in Vietnam. She was a staunch defender of women’s rights and

reproductive rights.

In 1988, Jeanette moved back home to Denver to care for her aging parents and live out the rest

of her days near the Rocky Mountains that she loved as much as the beaches of the Atlantic

Coast. There she was a member of University Park United Methodist Church.

She wished to be cremated and to have her ashes spread in the mountains near Denver. No

memorial service is currently planned.