Nancy Lamoureaux Wilson was born March 16, 1954 in San Francisco, California, the third and youngest child of John Wilson ( 2000), and Lois Mary Wilson ( Dustin; 2006). She has two older sisters, Lynn and Ann. Both of Wilson's parents were natives of Oregonher father from Corvallis, and her mother from Oregon City. Her middle name is derived from her grandmother, Beatrice Lamoureaux. Wilson is of French and Scottish descent. She was raised in Southern California and Taiwan before the family's U.S. Marine Corps father retired to the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, Washington, where they relocated when Wilson was six years old. The family lived in a Colonial home in the Lake Hills neighborhood.