Nancy A. Cahill, 66, tour guide

Nancy A. Doyle Cahill, 66, of Berwyn, a tour guide, died of cancer Aug. 4 at her home.

For more than a decade, Mrs. Cahill had been a guide for Centipede Tours. Dressed in a colonial costume, she led visitors through the streets of Society Hill, into Independence Hall, Congress Hall, and the Liberty Bell Pavilion and past log cabins and memorial monuments in Valley Forge National Historical Park.

She loved tourists and considered her fellow guides to be like family, her daughter, Jennifer, said. She was intent on increasing her knowledge of the area and had a library of reference books, her daughter added.

Mrs. Cahill grew up in Southwest Philadelphia. After graduating from West Philadelphia Catholic High School, she worked for Bell Telephone as a stenographer and moved up to division manager before leaving to start a family in 1968.

In 1966, she married James J. Cahill. While raising her family, she volunteered at St. Norbert's School in Paoli and at Notre Dame Academy in Villanova. In the 1980s, she had her own business making flower arrangements for weddings, social events, and six restaurants.

She returned to school when her children were grown and earned a bachelor's degree from Cabrini College in 1995.

For 20 years, Mrs. Cahill played tennis with a group of friends at the Springton Tennis Club in Media and was a member of the nine-holers at Waynesborough Country Club in Paoli. She had been a volunteer at the Women's Resource Center of the Delaware Valley in Chesterbrook.

She enjoyed gardening. An adventurous cook, she loved to entertain family and friends, her daughter said.

In addition to her husband and daughter, Mrs. Cahill is survived by a son, James Jr.; two sisters; and two grandchildren.

A Funeral Mass was said Aug. 8 at St. Norbert Church in Paoli.

Memorial donations may be made to Wissahickon Hospice, 150 Monument Rd., Suite 300, Bala Cynwyd, Pa. 19004.