Drone footage of Nancy Guthrie’s home and neighborhood
Drone footage of Nancy Guthrie’s home and neighborhood
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Perched along the Santa Catalina Mountains, the Catalina Hills community where Nancy Guthrie lives is known for outdoor activities, not crime scene investigations.
Homes in the desert community are spaced out and tucked away behind desert foliage, according to Nancy Guthrie’s neighbor, Jeff Lamie, and the quality of life is, as the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie has described, “laid back and gentle.”
“I like to watch the javelinas eat my plants,” Savannah Guthrie once said, referring to pig-looking animals that are often seen in the area.
The family relocated to Arizona from Australia, where Savannah was born, and where Nancy’s husband, Charles Guthrie, worked as a mining engineer.
In 1988, Charles died of a heart attack when Savannah was just 16 years old, a moment that the anchor told NBC tore her “whole world apart.”
Savannah, the youngest of three siblings, stayed in Arizona for college, attending the University of Arizona. Her sister, Annie Guthrie, didn’t wander far either.
“We had a spoken or unspoken pact that on the weekends, even though we were college girls, one of us would always stay home on one of the weekend nights so that my mom wouldn’t be alone,” Savannah said in 2017.
In a “Today” show segment about her Tucson roots last fall, one of many times the host featured her mom on the show, the NBC host called herself a “daughter of the desert.”
“When I go back I’m so — it’s like my whole soul is home, my spirit is home, I feel my father in the wind,” Savannah said when introducing the segment. “The desert, the cactus, the animals: It’s such a unique place, it’s a beautiful place to visit.”