Parker and her partner Linda were coming home from a family New Years Eve celebration Jan 1, 2007.  They stopped to help a stranger in trouble.  Something any of us might do. In return they were murdered. news coverage.

Dr. Nancy Parker Davidson had devoted her life to helping others and fighting injustice.  She volunteered at; Tierra del Sol homeless shelter for women, Hearts 4 Horses, ....the list goes on.  Parker won the 2006 New Mexico Governors Award for Volunteerism. 

Parker helped develop the 16 Step program for women in addiction and was the Foster Parent to a Navajo Youth. She was a widely respected psychologist specializing in bipolar and severely schizophrenic clients. 

Parker receiving 2006 New Mexico Governors Award for Volunteerism.	After hearing the evidence in March, 2009 the jury deliberated for one and a half hours and returned a verdict of 1st degree murder for both Parker and Linda. The defendant now faces life in prison. May 29, 2009 The Honorable Ross C. Sanchez, judge, Second Judicial district Court, Albuquerque NM rendered the maximum sentence allowable, life in prison.

In Memory of Parker
"It Could Have Been Me" by Holly Near
Verse by emma's revolution

Two peaceful loving women
Drove home on New Year's Day
Stopped to help a stranger
They'd passed along the way
The man was armed and angry
And he shot those women down
Still their work for peace and justice
Will always echo through this town

It could have been me, But instead it was you
So I'll keep doing the work you were doing as if I were two
I'll be a student of life, a singer of songs
A farmer of food and a righter of wrong
It could have been me, but instead it was you
So I'll keep doing the work you were doing as if I were two

Debbie and Nancy