Nancy Tiller Phares, age 78, of Independence, Kentucky died on Thursday, March 24, 2022 at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Edgewood, Kentucky.  She was a graduate of Indiana University, and a 1981 graduate of Valparaiso Law School.  She started her own law practice in 1981 and retired this year.  She is survived by her loving husband Robert, her daughter Paris (Theodore) R. Hodgson, her son Emerson (Andrea) H. Tiller, her three stepchildren Robert (Marcie) Phares Jr., Daniel (Emily) Phares, and Rebecca (Tim) Stevenson, brother Harold Moore, and two sisters Helen Louise Ham and Nola Jean Davison. She is also survived by grandchildren Tristan Theodore Hodgson, Hannah Paris (Jacob) Evans, Emerson Alfred Tiller, Julianna Grace Phares, Colton Stevenson and Jack Stevenson. Graveside services will be held 2:00 pm Friday, April 15, 2022 at Ashelawn Memorial Gardens in Jefferson, North Carolina.  A memorial celebration of her life will be held June 25 in Independence Kentucky at a location to be scheduled at a later date