Nancy Hughes

Nancy Hughes (born August 11, 1918) is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns. Since the show's inception in 1956, Nancy Hughes has served as the core family's (and by extension, the town's) matriarch. Since 1987 her full name has been Nancy Hughes McClosky, but she is more known to longtime soap viewers as simply Nancy Hughes. Nancy is played by Helen Wagner.

Family, Marriages, Romantic Entanglements & Children

Family

• Pearl (last name unknown) (sister)
• Edith Hughes Frey (sister-in-law)
• John Hughes (brother-in-law)
• Jeff Baker (brother-in-law; deceased)
• Neil Wade (brother-in-law; deceased)
• Anton Cunningham (son-in-law)
• Sara Fuller Hughes (daughter-in-law; deceased)
• Jennifer Sullivan Hughes (daughter-in-law; deceased)
• Mary Ellison Hughes (daughter-in-law)
• Kim Sullivan Hughes (daughter-in-law)

Marriages

Marital status: Single

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• Christopher "Chris" Hughes (1936-1986; widowed)
• Detective Dan McClosky (1987-96; widowed)

Significant Relationships

• Joseph "Joe" D'Angelo (dated platonically, 2000-01)

Children

• Susan Huughes (daughter; deceased)
• Donald Hughes (son; curerntly living in San Diego, California)
• Penny Hughes (daughter; currently living in the UK)
• Robert "Bob" Hughes (son)

Grandchildren

• Thomas "Tom" Hughes (grandson, son of Bob Hughes and Lisa Miller Grimaldi; born 1961, now depicted as being in his early fifties after a rapid aging in 1968.)
• Frannie Hughes (granddaughter, daughter of Bob Hughes and Jennifer Sullivan Hughes; currently living in Montega; born onscreen December 24, 1973, character now depicted as being older)
• Sabrina Hughes (granddaughter, daughter of Bob and Kim Hughes; currently living in South America; born 1965)
• Ryder Hughes (grandson; son of Don Hughes and Mary Ellison Hughes; born late 1970s)
• Christina Hughes (granddaughter; daughter of Don Hughes and Mary Ellison Hughes; born late 1970s)
• Christopher Hughes, (grandson; daughter of Bob and Kim Hughes; born onscreen 1986, character now depicted as being older)

Great Grandchildren

• Lien Hughes (great granddaughter; daughter of Tom Hughes and unidentified Vietnamese woman, born early 1970s)
• Adam Hughes (great grandson, although not biologically; biological son of Margo Montgomery Hughes and Hal Munson, regards Nancy as his great grandmother; born onscreen 1988, character SORASed, depicted as being in college in 2004)
• Casey Hughes (great grandson, son of Tom Hughes and Margo Montgomery Hughes; born 1991, turned 17 in 2005)
• Daniel Hughes (great grandson; son of Tom Hughes and Emily Stewart, born 1998)

Great Great Grandchildren

• Son of Casey Hughes, born 2005. Died in infancy.